Doctors in the 19th century tried to start a medical school in Charlotte. In 1887, the Davidson School of Medicine was ...

Spain's wax museum of dermatology, once a treasured teaching tool for medical students, will be closing its doors. Founded in ...

To effectively transform subjects into objects—human beings into specimens—collected crania were ensconced in the institutional spaces of medical school lecture halls and museum storage cabinets.

The letter is reproduced with only minor changes and offers a unique opportunity to see what medical school was like in the middle of the 19th century: “How d’ye do old fellow? How is Taneytown?

The result — scherenschnitte, or scissors cutting in German — enlivens the pages of Ripple’s book, “The Raub Family Country Doctors and Their Medical Flora Remedies in the 19th Century.’’ ...

She continued her research into medical history and returns to Talk of Iowa to share with host Charity Nebbe prominent women in 19th-century medicine, many tied to the University of Iowa— the ...

Efforts in the early 20th century to improve the quality of medical education in the United States led to a steep decline in the number of medical schools and medical school graduates. In a new ...

Efforts in the early 20th century to improve the quality of medical education in the United States led to a steep decline in the number of medical ...

Patients dabbed it on their sores or inhaled it. Doctors administered it using a device made by a French instrument-maker: a receptacle for holding the liquid mercury compound, with a green hose ...

Summary Dissection was the preferred teaching method in nineteenth-century American medical schools even though, until the final decades of the century, the practice was illegal in most states.

November 19, 2024 Hundreds of 19th-Century Skulls Collected in the Name of Medical Science tell a Story of Who Mattered and Who Didn’t Pamela L. Geller ...

Marked with numbers, demographic information and provenance – though not name – these skulls tell a story of racist hierarchies but also diversity in the early United States.