Patient History
This is a personal blog dedicated to writing about the history of disease, medicine and healthcare from early humans and their medicinal plants to the eradication of small pox.
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A common conversational trope you may have encountered is where a person asks friends: “what is the deadliest animal in the world?” After some thought they may respond with mosquitoes or sharks but then they will be met with the answer of “humans”. This witty, intellectually superficial thought makes for a good conversation piece, but…
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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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