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How Walter Reed Secured His Place in Medical History

WEBThe two 14-by-20-foot experimental shacks—built under the direction of U.S. Army Major Walter Reed, MD—sat 80 yards apart on a wide, grassy plain at Camp …

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How Surgeon General Rupert Blue Became America's …

WEBHow Surgeon General Rupert Blue Became America’s Heroic Microbe Hunter. Public health hero Rupert Blue helped defeat outbreaks of plague and a …

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The Disease That Killed the Young and the Beautiful

WEBMarcia and Henry Baldwin both died of pulmonary tuberculosis [See “Talking TB, below], aka “the White Plague.”. No one knew its cause or its cure, but everyone …

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Life and Limb: The Medical Revolution During the Civil …

WEBIn the chaotic battles atop South Mountain and along Antietam Creek, more than 20,000 American soldiers fell wounded. Many were destined for makeshift hospital …

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Civil War Nurses

WEBInformation and Articles About Civil War Nurses, one of the many roles filled by women of the civil war. Civil War Nurses summary: Thousands of women served as volunteer …

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Physicians’ Promises of a Cure for Tuberculosis Lured

WEBThousands of Americans seeking a cure (often a last-ditch cure) for their TB migrated west from the 1840s to the 1920s, persuaded by physicians who touted the …

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A Surgeon’s Vietnam Story

WEBAs a young boy growing up in Montgomery, Alabama, during the late 1940s and 1950s, Dr. Sheldon Kushner, a 26-year-old U.S. Air Force captain, never envisioned …

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The Madness of John Brown

WEBShare This Article. Old John Brown’s failed attempt to launch a “war” against slavery ended just after dawn on October 18 in a bloody rout on the grounds of the …

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Questions about Diseases in the California Gold Rush

WEBPersonally I think it is probably due to some climatic condition with which we are not familiar. “Pneumonia is also connected with influenza. There was the big …

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The Hot Lake Sanatorium Was Hot During the Heyday of …

WEBDr. Phy became director of the Hot Lake facility in 1904 and oversaw construction of a three-story, 105-room brick hotel and sanatorium between 1903 and …

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Howls of 'Socialism!' Killed Truman Health Insurance

WEBA May 1946 Gallup poll showed that while the majority of Americans favored national health insurance, less than 40 percent had heard of the pending bill. Support in …

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How Medical Triage Went Mainstream During the Civil War

WEBThe colossal hospitalization numbers from the COVID-19 pandemic have, at various points, forced hospitals in the United States to make hard choices regarding who …

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Yellow Berets: How the Vietnam War led some physicians to

WEBAmong the roughly 200 trainees who entered the clinical associate program in 1968, four physicians with little or no prior research experience—Joseph Goldstein, …

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How Woodrow Wilson's Hidden Illness Left America with no

WEBAT 11 A.M. ON MONDAY, October 6, 1919, a grim Secretary of State Robert Lansing gazed across the table at nine men seated in the White House Cabinet Room. …

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How One Civil War Widow Revolutionized Health Care

WEBIt required tremendous fortitude and self-confidence for a woman in the early 1860s to effect changes that would permanently alter the course of the nation’s health …

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Call the Midwife: Nurses on Horseback in the Appalachian …

WEBMary Breckinridge’s genteel background was worlds away from impoverished Appalachia. Born in Memphis in 1881, she was the granddaughter of …

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Nurses in Vietnam: Putting Themselves in Danger to Keep Men Alive

WEBAll were nurses—four died in plane or helicopter crashes, one from illness, one from a stroke and one from enemy fire. On June 8, 1969, 25-year-old 1st Lt. Sharon …

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Shaved Heads and Syphilis: A Brief History of Wigs

WEBWigs, however, were also used to disguise something far more sinister—syphilis. As syphilis spread unabated through Western Europe beginning in the …

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Typhoid Mary: ‘The Most Dangerous Woman in America’

WEBThe Warrens hired maids, gardeners and a woman named Mary Mallon to be the family cook. On August 27, one of the Warren daughters became desperately ill …

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