News Round Up Sunday Morning Medicine By Jacqueline Antonovich • August 11, 2013 Sharing TwitterFacebook A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news. Coffee, the Viagra of the 17th century. Punishing children in Victorian England. Did Jane Austin novels cure WWI depression? LGBT history? There’s an app for that. Clowns have a history of being scary. How to cure a bubble boy. A brief history of men’s underwear (get it, brief?) ‘Italian Schindler’ was a myth? The last person on earth to get smallpox. A horrifying tale of an 18th-century cesarean operation. French soldiers secretly filmed prison camp life during WWII. Does a 19th century painting tell a rare story of black life in the Antebellum South? Conservative flyers on disability initiatives include . . . wait for it . . . fake braille.
