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Early Blood Draw

Early Anaesthesia

Florence Nightingale

John Snow

Edward Jenner

Black Death plague was caused by human fleas and body lice, not rats, study says.

"I just don't know - Hipppocrates says one thing, Galen says another thing, and Vesalius says something entirely different."

Dentists' chairs down the ages

Hyacinthe Vincent

Walter Reed

Crawford W Long

"Don't you think calling it the Black Plague is kind of racist?"

"We've turned the corner on the plague. The king promised twenty million leeches."

"Look, the generic ones are just as good, and your insurance doesn't cover the brand leeches."

Cures for Ye Plague

Black Death plague was caused by human fleas and body lice, not rats, study says.

"We use leeches on the test subjects and slugs on the control group."

"What?"

What to do till medicine is discovered....

Milestone in Medicine: 'Brand new high technology, Lampwick, I'm going to bleed you!'

Historic Medical Moments: The first time a body rejected a heart before it was transplanted.

Press Conference

'Feed a cold, starve the plague.'

William Harvey

Hippocrates

The Harlot's Progress - Expires while the doctors are disputing.

Leeches, Lucky Charms, Rat Catching. . . Ye Doctor Is In

Leeches, lucky charms, rat catching. The secretary of health is in.

"So why is it that we only get to see you whenever you need a gruesome amputation?"

Department of No One Could Have Anticipated.

'... And some primitive cultures, believed that 'the great ones' modelled us from clay.'

"You're fired."

Trump Administration Raising White Flag in Ukraine

"1984 by George Orwell. Project 2025. Presidential transition project."

"Obama didn’t get to name a Supreme Court justice during his final year. So how come Trump does?"