History
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The Merry-go-round from hell for the mentally unstable
Picture this: It’s 1810, and ol’ Benny Rush, fresh off his success with the Tranquilizing Chair, thinks to himself, “You know what would really cure madness? A merry-go-round from hell!”… Read more.
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Sensory Deprivation toilet chair for the Mentally Unstable
Imagine walking into a room and seeing a contraption that looks like a cross between a medieval torture rack and a porta-potty. Welcome to Benjamin Rush’s Tranquilizing Chair, the 18th… Read more.
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Royal Jelly & Silkworm Droppings: The Buzz and the Poop of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Get ready, because we’re about to dive into the most unhinged yet scientifically fascinating duo in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): Royal Jelly (the queen bee’s secret sauce) and Silkworm Droppings (yes, bug poop, but… Read more.
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On the pathology of miner’s lung (1875)
and a history of phagocytosis (and athletic fish flakes) Read more.
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Leavell, B S. “Thomas Jefferson and smallpox vaccination.” Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association vol. 88 (1977): 119-27 and a few notes
Little Turtle, mentioned in the main article, suffered gout and rheumatism before he died in 1812 Wikipedia says Little Turtle, who also met Washington and Adams, made two trips to Washington,… Read more.
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Albumen Prints and Egg Whites…All the Rage Back in the Day…and A Few Other Things
The albumen print, also called albumen silver print, was published in January 1847 by Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, and was the first commercially exploitable method of producing a photographic print on a paper base from a negative. It used… Read more.
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Paintings by Frans Francken the Younger
Frans Francken the Younger (1581 –1642) was a Flemish painter and the best-known and most prolific member of the large Francken family of artists. He painted large altarpieces for churches as well as smaller historical, mythological and… Read more.
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Did WHO Study Conclude That Natural Blondes Are Likely To Be Extinct Within 200 Years? – Snopes
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gone-blonde/ Evidently these things or things very like them have been published (here and elsewhere) since at least the time of the Civil War. This quote is said to be… Read more.
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Protein Phosphorylation Was First Reported in 1906
Protein phosphorylation is a reversible post-translational modification of proteins in which an amino acid residue is phosphorylated by a protein kinase by the addition of a covalently bound phosphate group. Phosphorylation alters the structural conformation of a protein, causing it to become activated,… Read more.
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Basil O’Connor (1892 – 1972) was an American lawyer
In cooperation with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt he started two foundations for the rehabilitation of polio patients and the research on polio prevention and treatment. From 1944 to 1949… Read more.
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