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Ramblings with a Medical Historian
Nicole Curry
20 episodes
4 days ago
I discuss the history of medicine. I look at the practices, practitioners, misconceptions and more. I also talk about working in a museum and reenacting medical history. I also throw in some local history from my hometown.
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I discuss the history of medicine. I look at the practices, practitioners, misconceptions and more. I also talk about working in a museum and reenacting medical history. I also throw in some local history from my hometown.
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Ramblings with a Medical Historian
S03E02: A Brief History of Cancer

In this episode, I discuss the brief history of cancer. 

Make sure to check out "A Short Primer on Why Cancer Still Sucks" by Dr. David J. Stewart. 

Website

https://sites.google.com/view/ramblings-mh/season-3/episodes

Contact/Socials

Facebook/Instagram @ramblingswithamedicalhistorian

Email - ramblings.mh@gmail.com

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3 years ago
27 minutes 4 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
S03E01: Residential Schools Part 5

I'm back after my summer break. The summer is always crazy busy same with September but I finally found time to get the next part on the chronology of the Canadian Residential Schools System out to you. Here are links to the sources I used, more info and mental health supports.

https://sites.google.com/view/ramblings-mh/season-2/episodes

Resources

Survivor helpline 1-866-925-4419, Hope for Wellness Helpline 1-855-242-3310

https://www.hopeforwellness.ca/

https://www.canada.ca/en/indigenous-services-canada/news/2018/05/247-first-nations-and-inuit-hope-for-wellness-help-line-now-available-online.html

https://nctr.ca/education/teaching-resources/residential-school-history/

Websites

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/timeline/residential-schools

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools

https://indigenouspeoplesatlasofcanada.ca/article/history-of-residential-schools/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/07/the-history-of-canadas-residential-schools

https://www.lawnow.org/indian-residential-schools-chronology/


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3 years ago
14 minutes 57 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
S02E07 - Residential Schools Part 4

Discover the timeline of the residential schools in the first half of the 20th century. 

Resources

Survivor helpline 1-866-925-4419, Hope for Wellness Helpline 1-855-242-3310

https://nctr.ca/education/teaching-resources/residential-school-history/

Website

https://sites.google.com/view/ramblings-mh/season-2/episodes

Sources

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/timeline/residential-schools

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools

https://indigenouspeoplesatlasofcanada.ca/article/history-of-residential-schools/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/07/the-history-of-canadas-residential-schools

https://www.lawnow.org/indian-residential-schools-chronology/

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3 years ago
19 minutes 38 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
S02E06 - Medicinal Medicines

During my reenactments, I sometimes discuss the medicinal medicines that were used in Northern Ontario before modern medicine. 

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3 years ago
25 minutes 33 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
S02E05: Women in the History of Medicine

Join me this month in learning about women in medical history during Women's History Month.

Find out more about this episode here.

Facebook & Instagram @ramblingswithamedicalhistorian

Email: ramblings.mh@gmail.com

Website: //sites.google.com/view/ramblings-mh

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3 years ago
15 minutes 21 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
S02E04: Residential Schools Part 3: Early Schools

We are once again discussing the history of residential schools. Survivor helpline 1-866-925-4419, Hope for Wellness Helpline 1-855-242-3310

//nctr.ca/education/teaching-resources/residential-school-history/

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3 years ago
17 minutes 33 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
S02E03: Examination of Ancient Egyptian Medical Papyri

This episode we discuss the ancient Egyptian medical Papyri. 

Find out more about this episode here.

Facebook & Instagram @ramblingswithamedicalhistorian

Email: ramblings.mh@gmail.com

Website: //sites.google.com/view/ramblings-mh

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3 years ago
17 minutes 23 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
S02E02: Residential Schools Part 2: Indian Act

Residential School survivors help-line: 1-866-925-4419. Hope for Wellness help-line: 1-855-242-3310.

FB & IG @ramblingswithamedicalhistorian. Email ramblings.mh@gmail.com

https://www.nwac.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/The-Indian-Act-Said-WHAT-pdf-1.pdf

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/indian-act

https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_indian_act/

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3 years ago
24 minutes 17 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
S02E01: Residential Schools part 1

Welcome back! In this episode, we will be talking about the beginnings of the Canadian Indian Residential School System. Learn more at the link below and find the survivor helplines below.
https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_school_system/

Residential School Survivor helpline 1-866-925-4419, Indigenous peoples help Line at 1-855-242-3310.

More info

Facebook/Instagram @ramblingswithamedicalhistorian

Email - ramblings.mh@gmail.com

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4 years ago
23 minutes 40 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
S01E10: Episode 10! Thank you & maple syrup

I made it to 10 episodes! Thank you so much! I will be talking about maple syrup and all its maplie goodness. See the video that I did about maple syrup, it is in French, but it is very detailed if you want to know all about making make syrup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RasqpQ9YsSU 

Follow me on Instagram and Facebook @ramblingswithamedicalhistorian

Email me at ramblings.mh@gmail.com

Sources for this episode:

https://web.uri.edu/maple/quebecol-in-maple-syrup-extracts-inhibits-human-cancer-cell-growth/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebecol

https://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/maple-syrup-workout/

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/maple-sugar-industry

Roberge, Noel, et Leclercq. L’eau d’érable. Saint-Lambert: Dominique et Compagnie, 2008.   

Herd, Tim. Maple Sugar. North Adams: Storey Publishing, 2010.   

Guay, Stéphane. L’érablière sucrière. Montréal: Dominion & Grimm INC., 2006.

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4 years ago
21 minutes 26 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
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4 years ago
54 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
S01E09: A Critical Assessment of the Asu and Asipu

I have adapted one of my second-year papers into this episode on the Asu and Asipu. 

Follow me on: Facebook @ramblingswithamedicalhistorian Instagram @ramblingswithamedicalhistorian

Email me at ramblings.mh@gmail.com

Here are my sources:

Hogan, Larry. “Book Reviews: Illness and Health Care in the Ancient Near East: The Role of the Temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 75:1 (2001) 120-121. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/4621/summary

Avalos, Hector. Illness and Health Care in the Ancient Near East: The Role of the Temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel. Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1995.

Contenau, Georges. La Médecine en Assyrie et en Babylonie. Paris: Librairie Maloine, 1938.

Jaffar, Akram Abood. Mesopotamian Medicine: History of Medical and Health Sciences (2011) 1-31. http://www.slideshare.net/AkramJaffar/mesopotamian-medicine

Gibson, McGuire. “Gula, Goddess of Healing, and an Akkadian Tomb,” News & Notes The Oriental Institute 125 (1990): 4-5. https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/nn125.pdf

Teall, Emily K. “Medicine and Doctoring in Ancient Mesopotamia,” Grand Valley Journal of History 3:1 (2014): 2.

Paulissian, Robert. “Medicine in Ancient Assyria and Babylonia”, 10.

Biggs, Robert D. “Review: Illness and Health Care in the Ancient Near East: The Role of the Temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel by Hector Avalos,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 117:1 (1997): 170.

Biggs, Robert D. “Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health in Ancient Mesopotamia,” Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies 19:1 (2005): 4.

D., R. “Review: La Medecine en Assyrie et en Babylonie by Georges Contenau,” Syria 19:3 (1938): 290.

Rutten, M. “Dr Georges Contenau. La médicine en Assyrie et en Babylonie, (collection : La médicine à Travers le Temps et l’Espace. Directeur, Dr Stéphen Chauvet)” Journal des savants (1938): 180. http://www.persee.fr/doc/jds_0021-8103_1939_num_4_1_6255_t1_0180_0000_2

Gandz, Solomon. “Review: La médicine en Assyrie et en Babylonie by Georges Contenau,” Isis 31:1 (1939):100-101.

Retief, F. P. & L. Cilliers, “Mesopotamian Medicine,” History of Medicine 97:1 (2007): 27-28.

Koch, Ulla Susanne. “The Ashipu-Healer and Diviner?”, 1-7.  https://www.academia.edu/591778/The_Ashipu_-_Healer_and_Diviner

Mark, Joshua J. "Health Care in Ancient Mesopotamia" World History Encyclopedia. Health Care in Ancient Mesopotamia - World History Encyclopedia

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4 years ago
18 minutes 40 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
S01E08: Storytime

Sorry that this episode is short I have been busy with work and my grandma has moved to a hospice. 

I have done a small reading from Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages by Nathan Belofsky.


Follow me on:

Facebook @ramblingswithamedicalhistorian

Instagram @ramblingswithamedicalhistorian

Twitter @ramblings_mh

Send your emails to ramblings.mh@gmail.com

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4 years ago
9 minutes 3 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
S01E07: Amputations during the War of 1812

I am a reenactor who portrays a British regimental surgeon from the War of 1812 and these are my tales that I never get to tell about amputations. Check out this video to see a recreation of this operation, it is great and really informative. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctKKpBTWwwo

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Facebook @ramblingswithamedicalhistorian https://www.facebook.com/ramblingswithamedicalhistorian

Instagram @ramblingswithamedicalhistorian https://www.instagram.com/ramblingswithamedicalhistorian/

Twitter @ramblings_mh https://twitter.com/ramblings_mh

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4 years ago
19 minutes 29 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
S01E06: The men who developed anatomy during the Renaissance and Reformation period

Hey, I'm building off the last episode and talking about anatomy in the Renaissance. 

Find me on Instagram and Facebook @ramblingswithamedicalhistorian on Twitter @ramblings_mh. Email me at ramblings.mh@gmail.com.

Here is a list of sources; 

“Andreas Vesalius in De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (1543)” reproduced in Robert E. Greenspan, Medicine: Perspectives in History and Art. Alexandria, VA: Ponteverde Press, 2006.

“Skeletal and muscular system in De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (1543)” reproduced in Robert E. Greenspan, Medicine: Perspectives in History and Art. Alexandria, VA: Ponteverde Press, 2006.

“William Harvey, The circulation and venous valves in Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis (1628)” reproduced in Robert E. Greenspan, Medicine: Perspectives in History and Art. Alexandria, VA: Ponteverde Press, 2006.

Da Vinci, Leonardo. “The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, (1452-1519)” in Logan Clendening, Source Book of Medical History. Translated by Edward MacCurdy, 1938. New York: Dover Publications, 1960.

Harvey, William. “Anatomical Exercises on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (1628-1657)” in Logan Clendening, Source Book of Medical History trans Robert Willis, 1847. New York: Dover Publications, 1960.

Van Rijn, Rembrandt. “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholaes Tulp (1632)” reproduced in Robert E. Greenspan, Medicine: Perspectives in History and Art. Alexandria, VA: Ponteverde Press, 2006.

Vesalius, Andreas. “The Fabric of the Human Body (1543)” in Logan Clendening, Source Book of Medical History. Translated by W.P. Hotchkiss. New York: Dover Publications, 1960.

“William Harvey and Modern Cardiology” The British Medical Journal, 1, no.6116 (1978): 803-804. (Accessed January 22, 2016). http://www.jstor.org/stable/20418411

Ambrose, Charles T. “Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) – An Unfinished Life” Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica, 12, no.2 (2014): 216-230. (Accessed March 5, 2016).

Bardell, David. “William Harvey, 1578-1657, Discoverer of the Circulation of Blood: In Commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of His Birth” BioScience, 28, no.4 (1978): 257-259. (Accessed January 26, 2016). http://www.jstor.org/stable/1307276

Clendening, Logan. Source Book of Medical History. New York: Dover Publications, 1960.

Hæger, Knut. The Illustrated History of Surgery. Edited and translated by Jon van Leuven. Gothenburg, Sweden: AB Nordbok, 2000.

Kemp, Martin. “Dissection and Divinity in Leonardo’s Late Anatomies.” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 35 (1972): 200-225. (Accessed October 5, 2015) http://www.jstor.org/stable/750929

Laurenza, Domenico. “Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy: Images From a Scientific Revolution.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 69, no.3 (2012): 4-48. (Accessed January 26, 2016) http://www.jstor.org/stable/23222879

Loudon, Irvine, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

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4 years ago
24 minutes 14 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
S01E05: Autopsies in the Middle Ages

In this episode, we will be looking at the misconception that the Church banned autopsies in the Middle Ages. Email me @ ramblings.mh@gmail.com

Follow me on:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ramblingswithamedicalhistorian

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ramblingswithamedicalhistorian/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ramblings_mh

Here are the sources I used for this episode: 

Conner, Annastasia "Galen’s Analogy: Animal Experimentation and Anatomy in the Second Century C.E." Anthós 8, Iss. 1, Article 9 (2017): 118-145. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1100&context=anthos 

Hæger, Knut. The Illustrated History of Surgery. Translated and edited by Jon van Leuven. London: Harold Starke Publishers, 1988.

Kemp, Martin “Dissection and Divinity in Leonardo’s Late Anatomies” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes (1972): 200-225. (Accessed October 5, 2015). http://www.jstor.org/stable/750929

Loudon, Irvine, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Park, Katharine “The Criminal and the Saintly Body: Autopsy and Dissection in Renaissance Italy” Renaissance Quarterly 47, no.1 (1994): 1-33. (Accessed September 29, 2015). http://www.jstor.org/stable/2863109

Seelig, M.G. M.D. Medicine an Historical Outline. Baltimore: The Williams and Wilkins Company, 1931.

Thadani, Krishan M. “The Myth of a Catholic Religious Objection to Autopsy: The Misinterpretation of De sepulturis during the Renaissance” The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 12, no.1 (2012): 37-42. http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.libproxy.auc.ca/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=3899c829-e57d-4070-a8c4-eada3cc9d220%40sessionmgr4004&vid=2&hid=4202

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4 years ago
17 minutes 26 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
S01E04: Old Stone House

Welcome to my 4th episode about the Ermatinger Clergue National Historic Site or Old Stone House!

Follow the Old Stone House on:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ErmatingerClergue

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ermatingerclergue/

Follow the Friends of ECNHS on:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/friendsofecnhs

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/friendsofecnhs/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbAUU82BD4eSo4wca0LowJA

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ramblingswithamedicalhistorian

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ramblingswithamedicalhistorian/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ramblings_mh 

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4 years ago
29 minutes 10 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
S01E03: Creation of the Barber Surgeons Company Act of 1540: barber surgeons part 3

This is the last installment of the history of how the Barber-Surgeons Company was formed by the Parliamentary Act of 1540.

Click this link for the google doc containing all the sources. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rxKl1WDZVnx_OfLaA0WfPU9xG1LVUpp5FDOSSBCVU94/edit?usp=sharing 

Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @ramblingswithamedicalhistorian or email me at ramblings.mh@gmail.com.

I also now have Twitter @ramblings_mh 

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4 years ago
19 minutes 25 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
S01E02: The Church and medicine: barber surgeons part 2

Today we will be looking at the Church's relationship to medicine and how that led to the development of barber-surgeons. 

Click this link for the google doc containing all the sources. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rxKl1WDZVnx_OfLaA0WfPU9xG1LVUpp5FDOSSBCVU94/edit?usp=sharing 


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4 years ago
17 minutes 26 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
S01E01: Welcome & Barber Surgeons part 1

Welcome to Ramblings with a Medical Historian. In our first episode, we will begin to look at barber surgeons. I look at three descriptions of barber surgeons and here are the links to those articles. 

First article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_surgeon#:~:text=A%20barber%20surgeon%20was%20a,used%20by%20individuals%20in%20peacetime. 

Second article: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/barber-surgeons-0012613

Third article: https://www.pbs.org/kqed/demonbarber/bloodletting/index.html 

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5 years ago
13 minutes 46 seconds

Ramblings with a Medical Historian
I discuss the history of medicine. I look at the practices, practitioners, misconceptions and more. I also talk about working in a museum and reenacting medical history. I also throw in some local history from my hometown.