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Voices In Time

c. 1760 | Michigan

White-Man Giver

Native Americans encounter a terrible sickness.More

Voices In Time

1554 | Montpellier

Body Snatchers

Bringing out the dead in medieval France.More

Voices In Time

c. 1100 | Salerno

Feminine Issues

Trotula explains a woman’s “flowers.”More

Voices In Time

1804 | London

Helping Himself

Thomas De Quincey enters the church of opium.More

Voices In Time

1946 | Nuremburg

Nazi Science

Human experimentation during World War II.More

Voices In Time

c. 1905 | Mohalis

Feng Shui

Sinclair Lewis on the fine art of furnishing a doctor’s office.More

Voices In Time

1665 | London

Public Health

Daniel Defoe’s rules for managing a plague.More

Voices In Time

c. 1870 | South Africa

Herbal Remedy

The power of Zulu medicinal plants.More

Voices In Time

1908 | London

The Senior Practitioner

Rudyard Kipling gives a pep talk to med school students.More

Voices In Time

c. 1320 | Montpellier

Diagnostic Manual

Identifying the symptoms of lepers.More

Voices In Time

1847 | Philadelphia

Gaining Admission

Elizabeth Blackwell changes the face of medicine.More

Voices In Time

1624 | London

Riddling Distemper

John Donne meditates on man’s miserable condition.More

Voices In Time

c. 1916 | Vienna

Making a Diagnosis

Sigmund Freud provides an introduction to psychoanalysis. More

Voices In Time

1914 | Lambaréné

Swarmed by Mosquitoes

Albert Schweitzer confronts sleeping sickness.More

Voices In Time

c. 378 BC | Athens

Triage

To the healthy goes the medical treatment.More

Voices In Time

1747 | London

Cure-All

John Wesley throws some cold water on, well, everything.More

Voices In Time

1610 | Toulouse

Preventative Care

Finding a cure for love.More

Voices In Time

1526 | Basel

End of the Road

Discussing death with Erasmus.More

Voices In Time

1862 | Washington, DC

Louisa May Alcott Clears for Action

On tending to the war-wounded.More

Voices In Time

1889 | London

Collecting Symptoms

Jerome K. Jerome gives a self-diagnosis.More

Voices In Time

c. 1863 | Missouri

Home Remedies

The herb doctor cooks up a cure.More

Voices In Time

c. 1155 | Bingen

Gift from the Sea

There’s nothing a little whale won’t cure.More

Voices In Time

1847 | Tennessee

Civilization and Its Discontents

Dorothea Dix pleads for the creation of a new institution.More

Voices In Time

2005 | Afghanistan

Do No Harm

Medical ethics on the front lines of the Iraq War.More

Voices In Time

2650 BC | China

Yin and Yang

Achieving harmony in nature and the body.More

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