Pharmacology Archives - British Society for the History of Medicine https://bshm.org.uk/category/pharmacology/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 11:15:56 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Snake oil charms of popular medical history https://bshm.org.uk/snake-oil-charms-of-popular-medical-history/ https://bshm.org.uk/snake-oil-charms-of-popular-medical-history/#respond Wed, 04 Sep 2024 11:15:56 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=18896 The mention of ‘snake oil charms’ in the King’s speech at the opening of Parliament in July reminded me of one of the most unusual cases I encountered in my final years as a consultant surgeon, writes Bryan Rhodes. A middle-aged man had gone for a stroll close to Fell Foot Park in the Lake […]

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]]> https://bshm.org.uk/snake-oil-charms-of-popular-medical-history/feed/ 0 “The forgotten man of Africa” https://bshm.org.uk/the-forgotten-man-of-africa/ https://bshm.org.uk/the-forgotten-man-of-africa/#comments Tue, 14 May 2024 08:26:54 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=18422 Standing on the deck of the exploring vessel Pleiad in July 1854, Edinburgh trained doctor William Balfour Baikie was about to lead an expedition into the interior of Africa to test the validity of a cure for malaria, writes Wendell McConnaha. Baikie had been seconded to the mission sponsored by the merchant Macgregor Laird and […]

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]]> https://bshm.org.uk/the-forgotten-man-of-africa/feed/ 1 Recycling Penicillin from Urine in Post-War Germany https://bshm.org.uk/recycling-penicillin-from-urine-in-post-war-germany/ https://bshm.org.uk/recycling-penicillin-from-urine-in-post-war-germany/#respond Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:53:45 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=15419 Limited supplies of penicillin and Allied restrictions on German access to the drug in the immediate aftermath of World War II led to its recovery from the urine of treated patients. Susanne Krejsa MacManus explains. German research on penicillin started only in 1942 and then on a very small scale.[1]  Gerhard Domagk (1895-1964), the German […]

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