News Round Up Sunday Morning Medicine By Jacqueline Antonovich • June 23, 2013 Sharing TwitterFacebook A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news. Curdled breast milk. A brief history of funeral invitations. The cure for vapours. Building a cyborg, circa 1920s. Hair stockings to ward off “perverts”? Is there a scientific reason for oral sex? The incredible, disappearing evangelist. Fertility decline for women in their 30s a myth? The long, slow history of breaking medicine’s color barrier. Parenting advice about masturbation: a short history. The unexpected consequences of whooping cough outbreaks. It was not easy to be an Elizabethan child actor. Can hunter-gatherers tell us something about modern obesity? The cool history of Napoleon’s semaphore telegraph. How to discover an antibiotic: A historian’s guide. See Mickey Mouse join the army and die in Vietnam.
