Falling Star

The story shares similarities with the hero tales of cultures around the world as it focuses on a central character of supernatural origin who is raised far from home and comes to the people in a time of need to save them from danger or destruction or to offer them the promise of renewal and redemption. In this version of the hero tale, the main character's mother is a young Cheyenne maiden who falls in love with Brightest-Star (the evening and morning star) and marries him, joining him in hi...

Plague, Religion, and Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England

This post is part of the Monster Carnival 2022 – Why Early Modern History Matters Now. Lisa Olson is a librarian and recent graduate of the Master of Information program at Dalhousie University where she completed a thesis focussed on plague publications in seventeenth-century England. Find her on Twitter @Olson_Bochord.Lisa OlsonThree years since the start of the pandemic seems like an apposite time to see what lessons we can learn about the experience from a closer examination of early mode...

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Dwale - A Medieval Sleeping Drug in the Seventeenth-Century

Dwale was still known about in England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. By Dr. Elizabeth K. HunterWellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research FellowQueen Mary University of London As part of my research into early modern sleep disorders, I have been examining the wide variety of sleep remedies available in England at the time.  Browsing through the manuscript receipt collections at the Wellcome Library in London, I came across one with...

The Drugs Used by the Ancient Greeks and Romans

Many of us living in the parts of the world where marijuana has recently been legalized may regard ourselves as partaking of a highly modern pleasure. And given the ever-increasing sophistication of the growing and processing techniques that underlie what has become a formidable cannabis industry, perhaps, on some level, we are. But as intellectually avid enthusiasts of psychoactive substances won’t hesitate to tell you, their use stretches farther back in time than history itself. "For as lo...

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Ancient Greece?! View this email in your browser Masks and healing in ancient GreeceDear Classical Wisdom Reader,It wasn’t at the hospital or even amid a global pandemic but at the theater that healing took place in ancient Greece, according to translator George Theodoridis. There, masks were used on stage instead of on the streets.Mr. Theodoridis has translated all of the extant plays of the fifth-century BCE Athenian dramaturges as well as many of the Lyric poets. He argues in today's artic...

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Anesthesia and Queen Victoria

Anesthesia and Queen VictoriaHow did the son of a laborer from York end up as a physician in London among the most prominent members of British society, and be asked to administer chloroform on two occasions to Queen Victoria? The answer appears here. REMARKABLE JOURNEY Following his working-class start in life, John Snow toiled long and hard to become a physician. Early during his illustrious career he developed a lasting interest in anesthetic agents. ...

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Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Yellow (thing) See all of Yellow, there are 7 more in this node. (thing) by bitter_engineer Mon May 22 2000 at 6:32:27 To Iceberg Slim and his contemporaries, this was a jivespeak term for a yellow pill filled with barbituates. Good for keeping your whores calm. I like it! La Blue Girl Coldplay Pentium II Linus Torvalds Why is the sky blue? rot Yellow is the opposite of blue Iceberg Slim Orang...

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A Short History of Quarantine | NOVA

Connect With UsOur Sponsors Support Provided ByLearn MoreCollapseMenuSite NavigationWatchTopicsMilitary + EspionagePhysics + MathBody + BrainTech + EngineeringNatureEvolutionSpace + FlightAncient WorldsPlanet EarthSearchSearchscheduleEducationNewsletterAboutBody + BrainBody & BrainA Short History of Quarantine The practice of quarantine—the separation of the diseased from the healthy—has been around a long time. As early as the writing of the Old Testament, for instance, rules existed f...

Sarsaparilla: Uses, Side Effects, Interactions, Dosage, and Warning

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