Patient History

This is a personal blog dedicated to writing about the history of disease, medicine and healthcare from early humans and there medicinal plants to the eradication of small pox.

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  • Hearing of a hospital cook in a Somalian coastal village in the mid 1970s be cured of variola minor virus may seem insignificant and a largely uneventful medical story, however the recovery of Ali Maow Maalin allowed the World Health Organisation to mark the first time in human history that a major deadly disease was…

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