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		<title>Of Maggots and Infection</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2010/06/of-maggots-and-infection.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Anatomy and Physiology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[My Name Is Mary Sutter]]></category>
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By Robin Oliveira
During the war, the removal of the wounded from a battlefield involved not only the negotiation of a truce, but also tortuous rides in lumbering ambulances to makeshift hospitals in barns, commandeered houses and open fields. These trips were sometimes followed by a train ride in a cattle car to a nearby city, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Life Sleeping Beauty</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2010/03/real-life-sleeping-beauty.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[encephalitis lethargica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Molly Caldwell Crobsy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rip van Winkle]]></category>
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By Molly Caldwell Crosby
Sleeping Beauty falls into a deep slumber.  Rip van Winkle awakens after twenty years to find life dramatically changed.  What if they were more than tales inspired by colorful imaginations?  What if sleep could be dangerous ¬ even deadly? 
From 1916 through the 1920s, people around the world faced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you smell that?</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2009/11/do-you-smell-that.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health and Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History with an H]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicine, Health and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david s. barnes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[filth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[germs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great stink of paris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stench]]></category>

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By David S. Barnes
In the late summer of 1880, a wave of offensive odors descended upon the city of Paris.  For just over two months, between late July and early October of that year, Parisians complained of the putrid, insufferable stench.  The tone of many reactions was apocalyptic: &#8220;[T]he odors are truly unbearable&#8221;; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling Swinish: Or the Origins of &#8220;Pandemic&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2009/09/feeling-swinish.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health and Healing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Holly Tucker
And here I thought that regular bathing in Purell would spare me from H1N1.  A quixotic illusion, it turns out, for someone who teaches and has a grade-schooler. In the midst of mild fever, I started thinking about the origins of the term pandemic&#8230;
The seventeenth-century physician Gideon Harvey (no relation to William Harvey, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C-Sections Before Anesthesia</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2009/06/c-sections-before-anesthesia-3.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Holly Tucker
C-sections were the surgery of very last resort and rarely performed until the mid-to-late eighteenth century. While they were not common, this does not mean that the procedure did not take up good-sized sections of obstetrics texts. In fact, the more difficult and horrific the procedure&#8230;the more often you&#8217;ll get to read about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midwives and Witches</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2009/06/midwives-and-witches.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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by Bronwyn Backstrom (Vanderbilt University)
The ideas of witches and witchcraft have been around for centuries and were hot topics. Witches were typically identified as older single women of lower class. Throughout history, there has been a stereotype that only women, specifically midwives and other women-healers, were witches. Women were targets because of the tradition of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Curiosities, Authorial Resources</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2009/04/medical-curiosities-authorial-resources.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2009/04/medical-curiosities-authorial-resources.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HF authors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[brain organs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bumps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[curative radium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctor olaf van schulers brain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gotham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soul made flesh]]></category>

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By Kirsten Menger-Anderson
Doctor Olaf van Schuler&#8217;s Brain began as a short story about phrenology. I was fascinated by the odd idea of determining personality from the bumps in our heads, and intrigued by the diagrams of crisscrossed heads containing &#8220;brain organs&#8221; ranging from poetic talent to the tendency to murder. What other (now discredited) medical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The King&#8217;s Midwife</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2009/02/madame-du-coudray.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2009/02/madame-du-coudray.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best of]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by Allyn Bures 

Angelique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray, midwife to the nation of France, holds a substantial position in the history of early modern medicine.  Mme du Coudray is most famous for her revolutionary midwifery teaching techniques, including an incredibly detailed textbook and lifelike machines utilized to simulate childbirth (1).


As a practicing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s Medical Secrets</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2009/01/womens-medical-secrets.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2009/01/womens-medical-secrets.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health and Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex and Childbirth]]></category>

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by Renee Hanemann (Vanderbilt University)


Queen Elizabeth I, the queen of England and Ireland in the late 16th century, was a public participant in what was usually considered women&#8217;s secret, private household medical practice.  She helped to create broader public recognition of women&#8217;s medical knowledge with the publication of &#8220;Closset of Secrets.&#8221;  The &#8220;secrets&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A 19th Century Abortionist</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2009/01/19th-century-abortionist.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2009/01/19th-century-abortionist.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HT</dc:creator>
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By Beverly Swerling
It’s tempting to think the abortion wars started with Roe v. Wade, but it’s not true.

 
In the early eighteenth century abortionists advertised in New York City broadsheets  offering “guaranteed cures” for  “female problems,” code for an unwanted pregnancy. The cures took the form of a variety of purges and [...]]]></description>
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