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  1. Surgeon General Fights Prejudice to Provide the Facts on AIDS to the Public
    date January, 1984 to December, 1988map District of Columbia, District of Columbiatags Law, Science/Technology, Medicine/Health

    Timothy Murphy, author of AIDS, Morality, and Culture, recalled that in, “A 1988 report…some 8 to 60 percent of persons surveyed considered AIDS to be God’s punishment for immoral sexual behavior.”  Many of President Ronald Reagan’s closest advisors also felt the individuals who had contracted AIDS were deserving of the plague that was now cleansing the earth of the unfaithful.  Much of...

  2. Flu Ravages Families in Birmingham
    date October 20, 1918map Jefferson, Alabamatags Medicine/Health, influenza

    Ms. Lucy Dickinson, writing for the Birmingham News in October 1918, sent out an urgent plea to the city for a foster mother. An infant had been brought to the Children's Hospital by neighbors who had been caring for him. The baby's parents were victims of the epidemic “Spanish” influenza and were being treated at the local infirmary. Dickinson explained that the two "big-hearted fellows” who...

  3. Fun Times During the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic
    date October 21, 1918map Jefferson, Alabamatags influenza, Medicine/Health

    On October 21,1918, Birmingham News staff writer Henry Vance told his readers “[i]t is much better to be interned than interred.” The Spanish influenza had reached Birmingham, and officials had advised citizens to stay inside to avoid infection. Each day Vance featured a new game idea suitable for families to play while they remained indoors. In number six of a series called “Indoor Sports For...

  4. Spanish Influenza Aspirin Scare
    date October, 1918 to 1918map Jefferson, Alabamatags Medicine/Health, epidemic, influenza

    In 1918 the American Bayer aspirin manufacturer ran an advertisement in the October 18, 1918 edition of the Birmingham News, assuring readers that “the manufacture of Bayer-Tablets and Capsules of Aspirin is completely under American control.” They wanted to assure readers that they were “being operated as a 100% American concern” and that the overseers of that operation were all “native...

  5. America Experiments with Medicine
    date 1900map New York, New Yorktags diet, Medicine/Health, Health, Graham

    With the idea that America was the new Promised Land, many Americans were open  to everything new including ideas on health.  Diet, nutrition and wellness were topics of debate, often with men claiming to have the latest and greatest cure-all remedy. Reverend Sylvester Graham was an advocate for healthful living.  He introduced a restrictive diet excluding meat, butter, coffee, tea and any intoxicating...

  6. The Early Plight of Women in the Medical Field
    date January 1, 1850map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Women, Education, Health, Medicine/Health

    Late in 1849, famed author Fredrika Bremer arrived in America on a visit from Sweden.  Her writings were well known in America and upon an invitation to visit she gladly accepted.  Well aware of the high regard for women in America, she was intent on studying their position and value. During her two year stay in America, Ms. Bremer visited and was entertained by some of the most prominent people...

  7. Matt Turner Writes Home From Shelbysville
    date April 12, 1863map CHOCTAW, Alabamatags Civil War, Medicine/Health

    Writing home to his mother on April 12, 1863, Assistant Surgeon to the 22nd regiment of Alabama Infantry, Matt Turner captured the sentiments of many others in the Confederate Army as he spoke of wishing to return to his home.  Turner wrote his letter from a “camp near Shelbysville Tennessee,” where he was “alone except the agreeable company of the lame, the halt and the blind who all look eagerly...

  8. Cameron Family Concern for Slave Health
    date October, 1846 to December, 1847map GREENE, North Carolinatags Slavery, Cameron family, Medicine/Health

    The good health of a slave was essential to a plantation owner. Without healthy slaves, there would be no successful plantation, and in turn no successful owner. This idea was only further confirmed after continued research into the Cameron family letters. From the information gathered it seems that the Cameron family genuinely wished for their slaves to remain healthy. The jury is out on whether this...

  9. Vegetable Compound Cures Women's ills
    date 1862 to 1883map MIDDLESEX, Massachusettstags Health, Medicine/Health

    In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in the successful patent medicine business, the most popular product was Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Pinkham claimed to treat the worst cases completely from her Vegetable Compound. This claim comes from Victorian trading card of Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound that is found in many different styles. Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was made...

  10. Black-Draught and Cardui Promise Quick Relief
    date 1806 to 1831map Blount, Tennesseetags Medicine/Health, Health

    Mr. J. H. Davidson from Scarborough, Tenn. wrote on June 1st, 1887, "For several years I have [had] serious trouble with my liver. It has appeared to be enlarged, and was slightly sore. Pains in abdomen and chest were frequent, and excruciating pains in both lungs often made me fear consumption. At times I had headache and dry throat.  In April, 1816, I tried Thedford's Black- Draught and it gave...

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