#history of medicine

Stories tagged “history of medicine” in the Weird Science History archive — 7 stories connected by this topic.

• The 'Life Energy' Box Einstein Tested for Ten Days — and the Warm Ceiling That Explained It
• The 3,000-Year-Old Wooden Toe Scientists Test-Drove in Replica Egyptian Sandals
• The Ancient Egyptian Pregnancy Test That Asked Women to Pee on Grain — and Sort of Worked
• The Blindfolded Boy Who Fainted at the Wrong Apricot Tree
• From Lamb's Blood to Blood Types: A Short History of the Transfusion
• The Man Who Took an Iron Rod Through His Brain and Lived
• The Seesaw That Was Built to Raise the Dead

Related topics: #ancient Egypt #Egyptology #18th century #Albert Einstein #Benjamin Franklin #neuroscience #pseudoscience