<p>The famous journalist was arrested for stowing away on a hospital ship to cover the action on Normandy, writing a more compelling article than did her husband, Ernest Hemingway.</p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Medicine was primitive and their knowledge of it limited, but in their hazardous journey to the Pacific, Lewis and Clark lost only one patient</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Underschooled and ill-equipped, the men who attended the pioneers practiced a rugged brand of medicine—but they made some major advances all the same</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> Patent medicines were usually neither patented nor medicinal, which is not to say they didn’t (and don’t) have any effect</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> EQUIPMENT WAS HARD TO COME BY, RED TAPE WAS RAMPANT. BUT AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS IN FRANCE BUILT AN AMBULANCE CORPS THAT PERFORMED BRILLIANTLY IN THE EARLY YEARS OF WORLD WAR I</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> HOW A FARSIGHTED QUAKER MERCHANT AND FOUR GREAT DOCTORS BROUGHT FORTH, WITH MADDENING SLOWNESS, ONE OF THE FINEST MEDICAL CENTERS IN THE WORLD</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Today’s city, for all its ills, is “cleaner, less crowded, safer, and more livable than its turn-of-the-century counterpart,” argues this eminent urban historian. Yet two new problems are potentially fatal.</span> … </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The single greatest medical discovery of the last century began as a parlor game, and brought tragedy to nearly everyone who had a hand in it</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “A wound in the heart is mortal,” Hippocrates said two thousand years ago. Until very recently he was right.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How a favorite local charity of Boston’s Brahmins—parochial and elite—grew into one of our great democratic medical institutions</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> Americans have never been so healthy, thanks to advances in medical technology and research. Now we have to learn to deal with the staggering costs.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">American medicine in a crucial era was at once surprisingly similar and shockingly different from what we know today. You could get aspirin at the drugstore, and anesthesia during surgery. But you could also buy opium over the counter, and the surgery would be more likely to be performed in your kitchen than in a hospital.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">How our wartime experience conquered a wide range of problems from hemorrhagic shock to yellow fever</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">In a classic medical paper, Dr. Reginald Fitz identified the disease, named it, showed how to diagnose it, and prescribed an operation that would save tens of millions of lives.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> With its roots in the medically benighted eighteenth century, and its history shaped by the needs of the urban poor, Bellevue has emerged on its 250th anniversary as a world-renowned center of modern medicine</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">As modern medicine has grown ever more powerful, our ways of providing it and paying for it have gotten ever-more-wasteful, unaffordable, and unfair. Here is an explanation and a possible first step toward a solution.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">In the past 70 years, while several major diseases have been eradicated, one has risen from obscurity to take its place among the nation’s leading killers.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">America looked good to a high school senior then, and that year looks wonderfully safe to us now, but it was a time of tumult, and there were plenty of shadows, along with the sunshine.</span></p>
<p>Everyone knows that the bullet that John Wilkes Booth fired into Abraham Lincoln’s brain inflicted a terrible, mortal wound. But when a prominent neurosurgeon began to investigate the assassination, he discovered persuasive evidence that Lincoln’s doctors must share the blame with Booth’s derringer. Without their treatment, the president might very well have lived.</p>
<p><span class="deck"><lead_in> TODAY, NEARLY HALF</lead_in> a million men and women serve two-thirds of the country in a crucial volunteer service that began only recently, and only because a nine-year-old boy had witnessed a drowning.</span></p>
<p>In a hard war, theirs may have been the hardest job of all. Along with Army doctors and nurses, they worked something very close to a miracle in the European theater.</p>
<p><span class="deck">Cosmetic surgery was born 2500 years ago and came of age in the inferno of the Western Front. The controversy about it is still growing.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Stalwart as he was, the general was often ill. A doctor studies his record and notes shortcomings in Eighteenth-Century medical care.</span> </span></p>
<p>Rush was a visionary writer and reformer, a confidant to John Adams, Washington's surgeon general, and opponent of slavery and prejudice, yet he's not a well-known founding father. </p>
