The Cleveland-born neurologist treated patients for nearly eight decades, earning the Guinness World Record title for oldest ...

Ancient jawbone found on seafloor belongs to mysterious group of human ancestors US military planes flew a Patriot air defense battalion out of the Pacific to the Middle East. It took over 70 ...

Discover the medically obsolete Miasma theory and the haunting history of the Plague Doctor. Israel approves plan to seize all of Gaza and hold it indefinitely, officials say NASA Issues Geostorm ...

Believing the plague spread through miasma, or bad air, doctors wore elaborate costumes with beak-like masks filled with aromatic substances to protect themselves. Also called 'Black Death' and ...

Show more Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History episodes ... Allan Cormack. Doctor Vibha Marfatia – who escaped the pneumonic plague. Mikhail Bobrov – late ...

the pneumonic plague broke out in the city of Surat, causing mass panic. It saw the largest migration across India since independence was declared in 1947. Ashley Byrne speaks to Doctor Vibha ...

Aelius Galenus, the philosopher who was Marcus Aurelius’ doctor, was in Rome when a plague broke out in AD ... The Badge of Lost Innocence: A History of the West.

Their iconic and ominous look, as depicted in this 1656 engraving of a Roman doctor, is recognizable to this day. The plague was once the most feared disease in the world, capable of wiping out ...

When faced with the plague or syphilis, they often turned to superstitious rites and magic. At one time, doctors asked King ... As early as 430 B.C.E., history shows that people who had recovered ...

But epidemics are a fact of history. Life for York citizens was ... cases in Suffolk between 1906 and 1918. Nowadays, The Plague Doctor at The York Dungeon is on hand to check you for any signs ...