Wrong
The Athenaeum tries a spot of prognostication in 1854: If we may judge by our library table, homoeopathy is not in […]
Dodgy predictions
July 2015
Hidden dangers, Mysterious illnesses
Injured by the imagination
Forget drinking in pregnancy; here’s something far more dangerous. From the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1695: A lady was
Hidden dangers
Skipping-ropes: the silent killer
April 29th, 1905, and the ‘Minor Comments’ section of the Journal of the American Medical Association has a stark warning: Even
Mysterious illnesses
A case of hiccups
Towards the end of May 1797 Miss A.B., a young woman from the Isle of Man, was afflicted by a
Mysterious illnesses
The case of the poisonous pheasants
In the month of February, 1791, several persons in Philadelphia were seized, in about three hours after dining upon pheasants,