Topic
Medicine
2 articles
History of science
How did one doctor work out that hands were killing his patients?
Two maternity clinics stood in the same Vienna building, a few steps apart. In one of them, mothers died nine times as often. Nobody could see why, and one doctor worked it out anyway.
Biology
Why did sailors’ old wounds open up again?
A man on Anson’s ship had been shot more than fifty years earlier, and the scar had healed long ago. Months from land, it opened again, with nothing touching it.