News Round Up Sunday Morning Medicine By Jacqueline Antonovich • April 5, 2015 Sharing TwitterFacebook A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Privies of the past. Midwives on horseback. Celebrate deaf women’s history. A 19th-century “stench map” of NYC. Barbed wire’s dark and deadly history. The pre-history of the Peeps diorama. 19 real-life ads from the Mad Men era. 7 of the biggest quacks in medical history. Vintage medical equipment: a cautionary tale. NYC wanted to put highways on top of skyscrapers. Just for fun: things that 1890s girls know to be true. Anne Frank likely died earlier than previously thought. Parsing Reagan’s words for early signs of Alzheimer’s disease.
