Modern medicine has seen more development in the past 50 years than in all of human history combined. Many long-practiced medical treatments now seem completely bizarre in retrospect – things like putting animal dung on a wound, drinking urine, carving holes in your skull, or drinking medicinal potions made of […]
It all starts with a pump. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox’s Phil Edwards explores Dr. John Snow’s map of the Broad Street Pump, which changed epidemiology forever. In 1854, news spread about a mysterious new cholera outbreak in London. At the time, doctors […]
Throughout the history of medicine, there have been few surgical practices more barbaric and cruel yet sometimes surprisingly helpful than the lobotomy. Famous lobotomy patients range from children of politicians and English lords to singers who were on their way to stardom before finding themselves waylaid by mental illness. The […]
in this video I explain one of the most horrible procedures in medical history– the lobotomy and together we find out how it came to exist, but more importantly– why was it around for so long? the icepick surgeons shock us today but believe it or not this was once […]
While no two births are quite the same, everyone enters the world the same basic way – someone cries, someone else yells, and a third person tries to remember where the towels are. Amid this flurry of chaos, there exists an age-old profession – midwifery. You’d think helping parents bring […]
