What is yellow fever? – History of medicine
Kids with yellow fever in Mississippi about 1870. See how all the people are white? The hospital wasn't letting black kids in, or hiring black women as nurses. Where did [...]
Kids with yellow fever in Mississippi about 1870. See how all the people are white? The hospital wasn't letting black kids in, or hiring black women as nurses. Where did [...]
Chinese drawing of the human organs (about 1200) Eyes and fevers Between the Middle Ages and modern times, doctors have learned a lot of new things about how human bodies [...]
Ebers Papyrus, one of the oldest known medical texts about the human body. From Egypt, about 1550 BC How does the human body work? Doctors have been trying to figure [...]
Greek medicine: Sacrificing a sheep to Asclepius Getting sick in ancient Greece Disease was a very serious problem for the Greeks, as for all other people in the ancient and medieval [...]
Prometheus makes people (now in the Louvre museum) One of the Titans Prometheus was a Titan, one of the children of Ocean. He and his brother Epimetheus were Zeus' and Hera's cousins. [...]
Fish liver When did the first livers evolve? The earliest beginnings of what became the liver may have been relatives of segmented worms that lived about 600 million years ago. [...]