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Mother’s Little Helper: Psychiatry, Gender, and the Rise of Psychopharmaceuticals

For centuries, psychiatrists searched for the cure to mental illness, frustrated that medical doctors seemed to be able to find the “magic bullet” medications to fight disease and infection. In the mid 20th century, though, a series of new major and minor tranquilizers revolutionized the world of psychiatry. Doctors doled Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 2 months2 months ago
Still Life with Three Castles Tobacco, William Michael Harnett
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“More like a dust heap than a nose”: A Global History of Smokeless Tobacco

Tobacco smoking is definitely the default way to consume tobacco. But in certain times and places, smokeless tobacco- such as snuff, chew, or tobacco tea- have found niches. Yes, snuff was practical for some, a pop phenomenon to others, but many of these historical niches for smokeless tobacco were medicinal. Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 2 months2 months ago
George Caleb Bingham, The Country Election. Painting of drunk voters.
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“The Americans Can Fix Nothing without a Drink”: Alcohol in Early America

Today we’re going to discuss alcohol consumption in early America. Alcohol was very important to early Americans and it flowed freely through the colonies. Adults and children alike drank alcoholic beverages for a variety of reasons. One being that it was one of the few things that were safe to Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 2 months2 months ago
the count of Chinchón receives the febrifuge from his native servant.
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The Sacred Bark: A History of Quinine

Quinine, the alkaline derived from the bark of the quina-quina tree, would prove the most effective treatment for malarial fever and infection in human history. In the decades after the bark of the tree was exported to Europe, every state with imperialist aspirations wanted access to quinine. The Spanish Crown, Read more…

By Averill Earls, 3 months3 months ago
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