Articles

Bleeding and Transfusion

The purpose of this webpage is to provide a series of articles that illustrate
medicine's varied past, so we may more accurately direct its future.

Body Snatching - discusses the history of grave robbing for purposes of anatomical instruction

Influenza Epidemic of 1818 - description of the epidemic with comparison to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic

Eugenics - genetics gone wild, weeding out the weak by selective breeding

The Caduceus - what is the symbol of medicine?