A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news

• The fever of 1721.
• Leprosy in 1930s India.
• Ireland’s secret hangman.
• The paradox of gun history.
• The beautiful history of lice combs?
• The long history of the menstrual cup.
• The Melania Drumpf of the 19th century.
• The naked truth about French postcards.
• What did nearsighted humans do before glasses?
• Deafness as a public health issue in the 20s and 30s.
• The early 20th-century obsession with child prodigies.
• Ida B. Wells, police violence, and the legacy of lynching.
• Should we refuse to build memorials for terrorist attacks?
• Concealed births and abandoned babies in Victorian England.
• Can Che Guevara and Brigitte Bardo save this Bulgarian village?