News Round Up Sunday Morning Medicine By Jacqueline Antonovich • February 24, 2013 Sharing TwitterFacebook A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is not amused by your 19th-century parlor games. 1960s Playboy Bunny recruitment brochure. ‘Downton’ house may reveal lost history. Why black dolls matter. Back when Catholic universities supported birth control. Which state has the highest anti-depressant use? Anti-Communist oaths persist despite court rulings. Preservation efforts for the grave of ‘Peter the Wild Boy.’ Drugs and Romance? What did people use before toilet paper? The sexiest damn love letter you will ever read. Laudanum and the dangers of 19th-century medicine. The surprisingly sexist fight surrounding the minimum wage. Protecting white kids from history.
