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  • How conflict and bureaucracy delayed the elimination of yellow fever

    Edward McSweegan Kingston, Rhode Island, United States   Army Surgeon General George Miller Sternberg. US government photo. Via Wikimedia. Public domain. The Golden Age of Bacteriology (1876–1906) saw the emergence of techniques to cultivate bacterial pathogens and develop vaccines and anti-toxin therapies against them. The new bacteriologists rapidly identified the agents causing anthrax, gonorrhea, typhoid,… Read more

  • War & Veterans

    Anonymous A battered soul rebels Abigail Cline Appler Put a helmet on your privates because they’re going to see some action: The history of condoms in the military Sarah Bahr Union or Confederate, American Women Played Crucial Roles in the Civil War Effort Alexander Baldwin Archibald McIndoe’s stance against the clinical hospital archetype and the… Read more

  • Infectious Disease

    A-J|K-P|R-Z|VIGNETTES A – J Diego Andrade and Stalin Santiago CeliQuinine and global health Juan–Carlos ArgüellesThe early days of the Nobel Prize and Golden Age of Microbiology Patrick AshinzeLassa: The small town with the mark of death Arpan K. BanerjeeBook review: Pandemic Obsession: How They Feature in our Popular CultureBook review: Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and… Read more

  • The sweating sickness in Tudor England: a plague of the Renaissance

    Philip R. Liebson Chicago, Illinois, United States   Portrait of Henry VIII, c. 1537 Hans Holbein the Younger Oil on canvas 11” × 8” Introduction In the recent semi-fictional work by Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, which takes place in the early 16th century, the protagonist Thomas Cromwell, counsel and henchman of Henry VIII, awakens in… Read more