The Eccentric Japanese Microbiologist Who Died in Africa Proving Yellow Fever Was Bacterial Hideyo Noguchi

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Controlled human volunteer trials at Walter Reed confirmed Finlay’s Mosquito Theory systematically

A crisis faced the United States Army in occupied Cuba in summer 1900 that bullets could not resolve.…

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The history of American medicine in the middle of the nineteenth century was almost entirely a history of…

In the first decades of the 20th century, public health authorities in the US often explained high rates…

In the middle of the twentieth century, as countries across West Africa emerged from colonial rule, the search…

In the mid-twentieth century, while Western countries continued to erect fortress-like, isolated mental institutions to segregate patients from…

At the turn of the twentieth century, few European intellectuals had a future as bright or as certain…

The discovery of antimicrobial drugs in the mid-twentieth century revolutionized medicine across the globe. Penicillin had already proven…

In the middle of the twentieth century, few diseases frightened parents and communities more than poliomyelitis. Better known…