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Dr. Avery, Medicine Woman
Edward McSweegan Kingston, Rhode, Island, United States Doctor Alida C. Avery, Photo courtesy of Archives and Specials Collections/Vassar College Library. Source In July 1878, astronomers headed into the American…
The Schoolhouse Lab
Edward McSweegan Kingston, Rhode Island, United States Howard T. Ricketts in Mexico City laboratory. National Library of Medicine “Black measles” was a common name for spotted fever, which regularly…
African American contract doctors in the military
Edward McSweegan Kingston, Rhode Island, United States African American Soldiers in Cuba, 1898, Wikipedia In the spring of 1898, the United States rushed into a war with Spain but…
How conflict and bureaucracy delayed the elimination of yellow fever
Edward McSweegan Kingston, Rhode Island, United States Army Surgeon General George Miller Sternberg, Wikimedia The Golden Age of Bacteriology (1876-1906) saw the emergence of techniques to cultivate bacterial pathogens…
Mary Niles and the Canton rats
Edward McSweegan Kinston, Rhode Island, United States Doctor Mary West Niles, Wikipedia Bubonic plague arrived in Honolulu in December 1899. A month later it had spread to San Francisco,…
Jack London’s cloudy crystal ball
Edward McSweegan Kingston, Rhode Island, United States The Scarlet Plague, by Jack London. Open Library, an initiative of the Internet Archive. The COVID-19 pandemic has given quarantined readers new…
War & Veterans
…Wilfred Owen; the suffering of soldiers in World War I Edward McSweegan African American contract doctors in the military Joanne Murray Caring for “Our Boys” Anthony Papagiannis A memorable veteran…
Volume 13, Issue 1
…praise of swimming: from Benjamin Franklin to Oliver Sacks, James L. Franklin Mary Niles and the Canton rats, Edward McSweegan Carlos J. Finlay: the mosquito man, Enrique Chaves-Carballo The literary…
The sweating sickness in Tudor England: a plague of the Renaissance
…Britain, vol. 1 (2nd Ed) 1894. See London: Frank Cass, 1965:237-281. McSweegan E. Anthrax and the etiology of the English sweating sickness. Medical Hypotheses 2004;62:155-157. PHILIP R. LIEBSON,…
Women in Medicine
…R. Loughlin Frances Oldham Kelsey: A medical profile in courage Byron McGaffey and Ann McGaffey Hazel Louise McGaffey, MD Edward McSweegan Dr. Avery, Medicine Woman Mary Niles and the Canton…