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In the 16th and 17th Centuries in Europe, many people were on the move because of

Who were the “searchers of the dead”?

1 in 4 poor people living in cities in the 19th century died because of this

Burden of Genius is a film about the life of

In the Renaissance, standard practice in treating bullet wounds was to pour boiling oil into them to e rid of the poisons introduced by the gun powder. 

“God sends down no malady without also sending down it’s cure” is a belief of this religion.

This physician and Chief Medical Officer instituted legislation that penalized those who did not vaccinate their infants.

Physicians in Mesopotamia were considered deities

Nursing became a skilled profession with formal training, licensing, and the birth of nursing organizations in the 19th Century

Efforts to improve the health of workers, especially children, in factories and mills earned this individual the title of Father of Occupational Medicine.