Tag Archives: modern medicine

Fatigue … Cough … Sleep Deprivation … Blurred Vision … Agitation … Cataracts … Heart Attack … These are not symptoms of disease, but side effects brought on by the medications prescribed to manage or heal disease … Sometimes, in order to prevent serious trouble or even death, we must ...

Doctors haven’t always been the best example of cleanliness. For many centuries, they did not even believe in the existence of germs—how did one believe in what they could not see? The doctor’s surgical apron was covered with puss, blood, and every kind of gore, multiplying as he made his ...

The little row of gravestones, toppled by age and vandals, held the names of five children: brothers and sisters. Ranging in age  from 3 to 18 years,  three of the children passed away during one week in June, 1873. With no death certificates on record, one is left to guess ...