Tag: medical
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THE MYSTERY OF JOC-O-SOT’S BONES
So earlier this morning I was perusing the Cincinnati Enquirer archives when I come across this little blurb from the July 23, 1848 edition, which reads: “Quite a large crowd was collected in front of where the old mayor’s office used to be to see the basket of human bones that were taken from the…
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DISMEMBERED ARMS AND LEGS, OH MY!
Cincinnati is known for a lot of things but in the late 1880’s it seems beer, caskets and cadavers were top of the list, and I think this tale links them together quite splendidly. Back then, our city’s beer consumption ranked 2 1/2 times the national average. That comes in at about 40 gallons for…
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DONATED TO SCIENCE
It’s been more than 130 years since Harriet Cole worked as a cleaning lady at Hahnemann Medical College (now Drexel University) in Philadelphia. She’s still there, although in a significantly different form. You see the lady that once disinfected the halls of this institute of higher learning now hangs in them. Harriet was just 35…