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

Although more common in the 19th century because of heavy exposure to silver among people who worked with the metal and the ...

What if that long-abandoned theory that “bad air” makes us sick wasn’t entirely wrong? Secretary Kennedy’s crusade against ...

Recent health news has seen a rise in diseases that we thought were long-gone. With the historical significance of these ...

The Olavide Museum, founded in the late 19th century, contains hundreds of life-sized models of people infected with cutaneous diseases, from ringworm to syphilis. The graphic models helped medical ...

Often called mad hatter’s disease after the 19th century haberdashers who caught it from exposure during the felting process, mercurial erethism is a neurological disorder characterized by ...

Swimming, possibly one of humanity’s oldest recreational activities, dates back thousands of years. The earliest known ...

These pests were also used as a preventive measure, to maintain the balance of the bodily fluids and prevent diseases. But why were leeches so widely used and trusted in the 19th century?

During the 19th century, the way that people were living and working was changing dramatically. These changes affected the risk of infectious diseases and other conditions.

Likewise, the historian Christopher Hamlin, explains, "it was the magnitude of the reaction to it that cholera stands out as the signal disease of the 19th century." Despite its extensive media ...

In the second half of the 19th century, the Contagious Diseases Act was passed in order to arrest and treat suspected prostitutes. Tracing sexual partners with STDs ...

No matter how much we believe our knowledge and our technological capabilities have evolved, pandemics prove we are still at the mercy of the natural world.