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Text: Jim Dyer via San Jose Mercury News By the summer of 1939, 12-year-old Mary Korlaske was stuttering so badly that she thought it...
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Text: Jim Dyer via San Jose Mercury News By the summer of 1939, 12-year-old Mary Korlaske was stuttering so badly that she thought it...
Text via Victorian Era Female hysteria was once a common medical diagnosis, made exclusively in women. The history of the notion of hysteria can be...
One of the most controversial opinions I hold (upsetting to my family, friends, and maybe large parts of the world) is that modern medical...
For generations, an ominous warning had been used to instil fear and obedience in African-American communities: “The Night Doctors will get you.” It was...
The find of the skeleton of a “vampire child” in Umbria, in Central Italy, by archaeologists from the University of Arizona and Stanford University,...
Published in 1898 as a textbook on forensic medicine, the Atlas of legal medicine covers cases of murder and suicide in grim detail. The...
Growing up in the 80s, one of the scariest diseases kids could imagine was rabies. Stories of 30 needles to the stomach raged through...
We ended part I of our horror dental story hinting at the flourishing business of human teeth between centuries XVIII and XIX. As people...
Besides writing on a couple of underground magazines, I am a high school teacher. More precisely, I teach Philosophy and History. And if making...
This article will undoubtedly be a rough ride, dependent upon your opinion of gangrenous genitals. Hey, I don’t judge. Today’s lovely peek into the...