Nov 29, 2022 · At the heart of this approach was the belief that foul air caused tuberculosis. Despite Robert Koch’s discovery of the TB germ, Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 1882, the foul-air theory continued to shape 20th-century treatments. The high premium placed on ‘pure’ air as a therapeutic tool informed the growth of specialised hospitals known as sanatoriums.

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Nov 19, 2014 · Condoms have been with us for thousands of years, but the original condoms probably weren’t all that good for safe sex. Though tortoiseshell, animal intestine and linen have all been used to make them, it was Charles Goodyear’s discovery of vulcanised rubber in 1839 that brought condoms to the masses.

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Apr 13, 2010 · The origin of tattooing. The phenomenon of tattooing was once widespread. In ‘The Descent of Man’ (1871) Charles Darwin wrote that there was no country in the world that did not practice tattooing or some other form of permanent body decoration. The 19th-century German ethnologist and explorer Karl von den Steinen believed that tattooing in South America evolved from the custom of ...

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Dec 11, 2016 · S hakespeare’s writing is one of the most important sources for the knowledge we have about medicine in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. His works contains a lot of information on the contemporary medical practices of the time, but they also show the social history of medicine: how medicine formed a part of people’s lives and thoughts.