10 Human Test Subjects Whose Deaths Left A Lasting Legacy
(via Listverse) Over the centuries, the medical field has seen incredible advancements. Unfortunately, those advancements haven’t come free, and there
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10 Facts About Aspirin
(via Mental Floss) Aspirin may be one of the world’s best-known wonder drugs, able to cure everything from cure a
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The Heart Beat Goes On: The Unlikely Story Behind the World’s First Heart Transplant
(via Popular Mechanics) Fifty years ago, an ambitious South African doctor performed the world’s first open-heart transplant, a procedure that
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The Existential Horror Created by the First X-Ray Images
(via Atlas Obscura) The hand of Anna Bertha Roentgen, wife of inventor and scientist Wilhelm Roentgen was the first radiograph,
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In the 1800s, Sick People Would Consult Cookbooks Before Doctors
(via Atlas Obscura) In most middle-class British households in the 18th and 19th centuries, you would find a booklet filled
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The Woman Who Survived the Lowest Body Temperature Ever
(via Atlas Obscura) Anna Bågenholm has spent much of her life at the University Hospital of North Norway in Tromsø.
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New Pain-Killing Gel Could Help With Limb Transplants
(via Popular Mechanics) A new gel could revolutionize pain treatment by going where it needs to go when it needs
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Ten Medical Innovations from World War I
(via BBC) In response to the new, devastating weapons of industrialized warfare of World War I came equally advanced medical
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White-Knuckle Adventures in Early Dentistry
(via Collectors Weekly) With all those gleaming, stainless-steel tools readied for painful prodding, few people look forward to visiting the
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