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Colonists in 1776 Lived With Pain Every Day and Their Medical Tools Show How Brutal Life Was
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1079+ words) Home → Science → History The medical tools of the Revolutionary period help flesh out the picture...like to be in someone else’s skin. Now that I am a medical historian, I am lucky to be a Smithsonian curator with access to…...
Roman Doctors Used Human Feces as Medicine and Now We Have Chemical Proof
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (574+ words) recovered from a tomb in ancient Pergamon, once a major medical hub—has now delivered rare, chemical evidence...strategic. Roman dung-medicine has appeared in medical writings, but researchers rarely found any physical...
Ancient Brain Surgery Tool Found in Poland Suggests Celtic Druids Were Medics, Too
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (400+ words) origin who arrived here had someone specialized in medical procedures,” Dr. Kaczyński said. “He was probably...
Traces of Ancient Opium Found in a 2,500-Year-Old Egyptian Vase Linked to 'King of Kings' Xerxes
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (649+ words) A rare vase opens a window into ancient drug use and ritual life. A 22-centimeter alabaster vase, inscribed to the Persian king Xerxes I, has revealed that narcotics were part of everyday life in ancient Egypt. Inside the vessel, Yale…...
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us? Made Us Sicker, Apparently
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (864+ words) Roman urbanization in Britain caused rampant disease and malnutrition The Roman Empire is arguably the most impressive culture in human history. The Romans conquered and subdued several powerful civilizations, introduced technological innovations, and significantly altered the course of history. The…...
Ancient Surgical Tools Found in China May Hold the Earliest Chemical Evidence of Anesthesia
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (724+ words) Province, in 1974. Among the grave goods were iron medical tools, including a pair of scissors and tweezers,...
Neanderthals Weren’t Just Meat-Eating Brutes. They Cooked, Foraged, Fished — and Maybe Even Self-Medicated
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (745+ words) Home → Features → History and Humanities → Anthropology Their meals were richer, stranger, and more varied than the old caveman stereotype. For a long time, Neanderthals were imagined as bulky carnivores of the Ice Age: heavy-browed hunters who lived on slabs of…...
How the Romans Invented Apartment Living. It Was Brilliant, Brutal, and Often Deadly
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (1386+ words) Long before modern cities built upward, Rome learned how to stack human lives....
DNA Analysis Confirms Grim Tale from 800-Year-Old Norse Saga
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (764+ words) A Norse saga, a man in a well, and a genetic study that confirmed a legend. King Sverre Sigurdsson had a tumultuous reign, but perhaps the darkest day for his stronghold came when he wasn’t even there. In 1197, while the…...
CT Scans Mummified Inca Children Reveal a Violent Secret Hidden for 500 Years
6+ mon, 3+ day ago (736+ words) They were dead, but for the sake of the capacocha rituals, their bodies had to undergo a series of more unfortunate events. When you slide a 500-year-old frozen child into a high-resolution CT scanner, you expect to see the preservation…...