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The Angkor Empire’s National Health Service History Today

WEBThe Angkorian Empire was founded in 802, when Jayavarman II performed a ritual ceremony at Phnom Kulen, a mountain range north of the area that would …

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Body and Mind History Today

WEBThe Spanish Flu is thought to have killed 50 million worldwide between 1918 and 1919, but there was a hidden impact on mental wellbeing. A century later, as the …

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K Syndrome, the Disease that Saved History Today

WEBBehind the closed doors of the Fatebenefratelli hospital in Rome was a ward filled with patients being treated for K Syndrome. This new and unfamiliar disease – …

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What can History tell us about Epidemics

WEBNews about the spread of and reactions to the coronavirus punctuates our daily lives, alternately creating fear and reassurance, as social media stirs feelings of …

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Bart’s Hospital History Today

WEBBart’s Hospital. St Bartholomew’s was refounded in the reign of Henry VIII. Courtney Dainton describes how, for nearly two centuries, it was one of only two major hospitals in …

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Quack Medicine in Georgian England History Today

WEBWilliam Hogarth: Marriage à-la-mode: The Visit to the Quack Doctor, 1743 In Georgian England, a medical orthodoxy existed which was socially well-defined and institutionally …

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Reading is Bad for your Health History Today

WEBReading is Bad for your Health. Roy Porter, in his Longman/History Today lecture, warns of the bad eyesight, poor posture, incomprehensible babblings, addled …

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The Morality of Medicine History Today

WEBThe rise of laboratory science in the late 19th century put stark focus on the moral cost of medical innovation. ‘Modern medical science has given us a choice where …

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Robert Koch’s Nobel Prize for Medicine History Today

WEBHe spoke slowly and haltingly, but his audience listened in stunned admiration and Paul Ehrlich, who would win the Nobel Prize for Medicine himself in 1908, called it ‘the most …

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The Body as Machine History Today

WEBHomans is clear that Balanchine ‘needed to be physically attracted to a dancer’ in order to choreograph and believed that ‘only a man who loves women’ could …

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How vain were the Romans

WEBEvidence of make-up and beauty treatments reveal the daily nuances of Roman life. Mistress and servants: the Neumagen relief, Trier, Germany, c.AD 200 The …

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Pandemics: Now and Then History Today

WEBThe Greek roots of endemic, epidemic and pandemic give them a patina of scientific precision, which is misleading.The uses and connotations of the terms have …

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Medicine in Ancient Rome History Today

WEBMedicine in Ancient Rome. R.W. Davies describes how the Romans were often suspicious of doctors; and contemporary satirists, including Martial, cracked many jokes at their …

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America's First Birth Control Clinic History Today

WEBAmerica's First Birth Control Clinic. A family planning clinic opened in New York on 16 October 1916. It lasted only a few days. Woman Rebel: Sanger and her …

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Medieval Hospitals of England History Today

WEBIn England, medieval hospitals flourished until the beginning of the 15th century, funded by taxes, tolls, and wealthy doners. Over 700 hospitals were founded in England between …

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Looking Radiant History Today

WEBRadium, which was discovered by Marie Skłodowska Curie in 1898, had already been the subject of scientific, medical, entrepreneurial and public fascination for …

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The Cheyenne Club History Today

WEBIn 1879, writes Samuel Stanley, a magnificent new clubhouse was opened for the benefit of the gentlemanly young ranchers who had recently invaded Wyoming. The bleak, wind …

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The Madness of King Henry VI History Today

WEBThe Madness of King Henry VI. Faced with extreme pressures, the ruler of England suffered a complete breakdown. But beware modern diagnoses of medieval …

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The Great Smallpox Epidemic History Today

WEBIn August 1779, after an eighteen-year hiatus, smallpox struck Mexico City. It moved quickly, and by December 27th the disease had afflicted 44,286 people in the …

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