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A Little Mercurial History

10 Apr 2019

鈥淪ince calomel鈥檚 become their boast,/ How many patients have they lost?/ How many thousands they make ill,/ Of poison with their calomel?鈥 So ran a little verse written in 1825 by an unknown poet...

Bottled Superstition: Then and Now

5 Apr 2019

Workers at a London construction site were mystified when they unearthed a sealed stoneware bottle with some very strange markings including the image of a scary bearded man.聽The bottle, obviously...

How Louis Pasteur Beat a Beet Problem and Changed Medicine Forever

6 Mar 2019

Pasteur, who聽was then a young professor of chemistry at the University of Lille,聽was saddled with a problem faced by many researchers today.聽He needed funding and sought help from private...

Did You Know that Colonialism is responsible for the spread of malaria?

15 Feb 2019

Malaria is an infectious disease caused by a single-celled parasite that multiplies in human red blood cells as well as in the intestines of the Anopheles mosquito, the insect that transmits the...

40 Years of Human Experimentation in America: The Tuskegee Study

25 Jan 2019

Starting in 1932, 600 African American men from Macon County, Alabama were enlisted to partake in a scientific experiment on syphilis. The 鈥淭uskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,鈥...

The Origins of Santa...Maybe.

20 Dec 2018

Reindeer, it seems, just loved Amanita muscaria, or Fly Agaric, as it is better known. They could be led around by the nose, as it were, just by sprinkling pieces of the mushroom in front of them....

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