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Catherine Campbell

Catherine Campbell

Editor of The Sickroom
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Catherine Campbell
Catherine Campbell in The Sickroom
Dec 1, 2015 · 5 min read

Quinine

Malaria has plagued humanity for several millennia. The Nei Ching mentioned it more than 2000 years ago, as did the Ancient Greeks: Hippocrates wrote of the symptoms in his 400 BCE book “On Airs, Waters, and Places,” relating it to poor air, especially in the summer. Although miasmas (noxious vapors once thought…

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Catherine Campbell
Catherine Campbell in The Sickroom
Dec 1, 2015 · 6 min read

A History of the Stethoscope

You are a young woman in Paris, 1816. You have a heart problem, and are wealthy enough to have access to a…

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