Medicine

A Court for King Cholera

Death in the Time of Cholera

11 18 min read

General Paresis of the Insane

4 10 min read

Visitation of the Plague, London 1665

4 9 min read

1918 Influenza Epidemic

Spanish Influenza of 1918

3 10 min read

Patent Medicines

3 7 min read

Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878

3 5 min read

Yellow fever, or yellow jack, or even yellow plague is a virus spread by infected mosquitoes. It’s first symptoms are...

Smallpox, Kosovo, Yugoslavia epidemic, March and April 1972

Smallpox

3 4 min read

One of our ancestor’s greatest fears was the highly contagious smallpox, a disease that has thankfully been considered to be...