Dr. Priya Anand-Okafor

— How a simple plant turned the healers of Kos into the happiest, hungriest, and most useless doctors in the ancient world. —

— One woman’s crusade to apply several thousand invertebrates to every available soldier. —

— The bacteriologist who discovered how to make everyone stop lying, starting with himself. It did not go well. —

— The Lady with the Lamp meets several hundred gentlemen who are absolutely convinced they are teapots. —

— A 78% increase in jaw-related screaming at the court of Versailles, 1686–1692. —

— How one Bolognese woman’s love for Chianti (and hatred of dying patients) almost saved the world. Almost. —

— How One Doctor’s Rectal Obsession Turned a Plague Outbreak into a Shit-Covered Catastrophe —

— How a Dutch Bone-Saw's Mid-Life Crisis Accidentally Created the World’s Most Disgusting Art Movement —

— How One Asylum Director Tried to Cure Hysteria with Off-Key Verdi, and Mostly Just Invented Noise Pollution —

— Medical Historian Examines How the 1918 “Jazz-Hand-demic” Turned Doctors Into Divas and Patients Into Hecklers —

— Turns Out, Drilling a Hole in Your Head Cures Exactly Nothing—But It Sure Makes for a Hell of a Party. —