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One Medicine: Animal Experiments and the Making of Modern Medical Science

The interplay between human and veterinary medicine was incredibly common by the second half of the 19th century. While human medicine and veterinary medicine were distinct professions, they were inextricably linked in the latest experimental turn. Not only were animals involved in the experiments that led to medical breakthroughs, they Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 3 months3 months ago
At the turn of the 20th century, mine rescue crews brought canaries underground with them in the wake of an explosion to detect noxious gases. Courtesy of the United States Mine Safety and Health Administration
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Canary in a Coal Mine – Sentinel Animals in the Depths

Elizabeth: It’s 1926 and you’re in a mine cage, a type of elevator contraption that slowly descends down the shaft of a coal mine. The air gets colder and colder as the light disappears from above and you are plunged into darkness, lit only by a single dim bulb attached Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 3 months3 months ago
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Remember Rutterkin? Witch’s Familiars, Religious Reformation, and Sexy Beasts in Early Modern Europe

Toads, dogs, cats, ferrets, rats, and occasionally even butterflies were depicted in the 16th and 17th centuries as “witch’s familiars” throughout Europe. A servant of the witches, whose purpose was to help them stir up trouble and cause harm in their enemies, familiars were particularly important in English witch lore. Read more…

By Averill Earls, 3 months3 months ago
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War Elephants from Ancient India to World War II

In mid-March of 2022, a video spread virally across social media platforms: an elephant with its trunk wrapped around the top bar of its enclosure, its eye casting an anxious look out. A keeper pats his cheek and holds an apple, trying to comfort the distressed animal. The elephant was Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 4 months4 months ago
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