Medicine & health

Premieres 16 NovThe Plague Doctor Who Gave the World the Face MaskDec 1910 - Apr 1911 · Harbin, ManchuriaPremieres 03 DecThe Woman Who 'Gave Birth' to RabbitsSep–Dec 1726 · Godalming, Surrey and London

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• 1,500 Students Breathed for Polio Patients by Hand 1952 · Copenhagen, Denmark
• 674 Miles by Dog Sled to Stop an Epidemic 1925 · Nenana to Nome, Alaska
• A Bullock Driver's New Nose Started Plastic Surgery 1792–1794 · Pune, India
• A Drum of Salty Sugar Water Beat Cholera in 1971 1971 · refugee camp in West Bengal, India, during Bangladesh's war of independence
• A Shipyard Flaw Detector Saw the First Unborn Baby 1955-1958 · Babcock & Wilcox, Renfrew and Glasgow, Scotland
• A Singing Seagull Changed How Australia Dresses 1980–1981 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• A Sunburn on a Mountain Invented SPF 1938–1974 · Piz Buin, Alps
• Ancient Nubians Brewed Antibiotic Beer AD 350–550 · Nubia, Sudan
• Beethoven Heard His Piano Through His Teeth 1796-1827 · Vienna, Austria
• Did al-Razi Choose a Hospital With Rotting Meat? c. 900 · Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate (story retold for the al-ʿAdudi hospital, 981)
• Did Lead Makeup Kill? A Physicist Tested It on Pigskin 1760 · London → 2020s · Hamilton, Canada
• Doctors Prescribed the Didgeridoo for Snoring 2004-2006 · Zurich, Switzerland