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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...
On a Wednesday afternoon in November 1970, social workers at the Los Angeles County Welfare Offices sat at their desks processing mountains of paperwork,...
The best way to understand where we are in this moment is to look at our past. There’s been so much effort put into...
Are you fascinated by the strange medical practices of our past? Under the Knife is a rad medical oddities and history web series that...
via:Â Res Obscura In a previous post, I touched on the phenomenon of “cannibal medicine” in early modern Europe. It turns out that it was...
In the Victorian era, asylums popped up all over the UK, places where troubled people – some mentally ill, some not – were “dumped”...