James Thomas

July 8, 2019

History of Medicine

James Thomas

July 8, 2019

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Aug 1, 2022

The Medieval Key Workers

Aug 1, 2022

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Aug 1, 2022

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Mar 29, 2022

Shark Tales: the oldest shark attack, the shark attack survivor who became a lord mayor, and the shark that solved a crime

Mar 29, 2022

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Mar 29, 2022

Sep 12, 2021

How that *one* thing we all 'know' about Egyptian Mummies might be wrong

Sep 12, 2021

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Sep 12, 2021

Jun 24, 2020

Ice and a slice (of history): the story of the G&T

Jun 24, 2020

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Jun 24, 2020

Apr 20, 2020

History rhymes: two Prime Ministers, two pandemics

Apr 20, 2020

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Apr 20, 2020

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Mar 11, 2020

Super Spreaders: The Story of 'Typhoid Mary'

Mar 11, 2020

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Mar 11, 2020

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Feb 21, 2020

The Truthtellers: Li Wenliang & Ignaz Semmelweis

Feb 21, 2020

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Jan 24, 2020

Mouldy Mary and the Cantaloupe

Jan 24, 2020

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Jan 15, 2020

Casting the dye: the first antibiotics

Jan 15, 2020

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Jan 15, 2020

Nov 29, 2019

Bald’s Leechbook: Going (pre) medieval on superbug

Nov 29, 2019

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Nov 29, 2019

Oct 28, 2019

Opium: A trip through history

Oct 28, 2019

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Oct 28, 2019

Aug 28, 2019

Two snakes or one? How we get the symbol for Medicine wrong

Aug 28, 2019

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Aug 28, 2019

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Aug 18, 2019

When mental health robbed England of its king for over a year

Aug 18, 2019

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Aug 18, 2019

Jul 29, 2019

#FOAMPubMed 1: Lemons and Limes, the first clinical trial and how to make a research question

Jul 29, 2019

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Jul 29, 2019

Jul 10, 2019

Hippocrates to Helsinki: Medical Ethics

Jul 10, 2019

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Jul 10, 2019

Jul 1, 2019

Not to be sneezed at: How we found the cause of hay fever

Jul 1, 2019

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Jul 1, 2019

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Jun 10, 2019

Medical school medieval style

Jun 10, 2019

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Jun 10, 2019

May 13, 2019

The world’s first forensic scientist

May 13, 2019

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May 13, 2019

Apr 29, 2019

Those who cannot remember the past: how we forgot the first great plague and how we're failing to remember lessons with Ebola

Apr 29, 2019

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Apr 29, 2019

Apr 8, 2019

There is nothing new under the sun: the current New York measles epidemic and lessons from the first 'anti-vaxxers'

Apr 8, 2019

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Apr 8, 2019

Mar 25, 2019

Sweating Sickness: England’s Forgotten Plague

Mar 25, 2019

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Mar 25, 2019

Mar 18, 2019

The Most Famous Case Report Ever

Mar 18, 2019

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Mar 18, 2019

Mar 8, 2019

Mass Hysteria & Moral Panic: The Dancing Plagues and #Momo

Mar 8, 2019

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Mar 8, 2019

Mar 4, 2019

Flogging, Bellows, Barrels, Smoke Up the Bum and Abraham Lincoln - Early CPR

Mar 4, 2019

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Mar 4, 2019

Feb 15, 2019

Smallpox: the Giants' Shoulders Edward Jenner Stood on to Overcome 'The Speckled Monster'

Feb 15, 2019

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Feb 15, 2019

Feb 8, 2019

How 'The Unknown Woman of the Seine' became 'Resusci Anne'

Feb 8, 2019

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Feb 8, 2019

Feb 1, 2019

The Story behind Gray's Anatomy (the real one)

Feb 1, 2019

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Feb 1, 2019

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Jan 25, 2019

The Wound Man: From Textbook to Emblem and Hollywood

Jan 25, 2019

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Jan 25, 2019

Jan 18, 2019

How Saline Earned its Salt

Jan 18, 2019

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Jan 18, 2019