syphilis /oss/taxonomy/term/1030/all en Fighting Fire with Fire: how a Nobel Prize Winning Scientists Used Malaria to ‘Cure’ Syphilis /oss/article/medical-student-contributors-history/fighting-fire-fire-how-nobel-prize-winning-scientists-used-malaria-cure-syphilis <p>The history of science is full of disproved experiments, revised textbooks, and rewritten hypotheses. Even Nobel prize-winning research, which is often viewed as the best work science has to offer, can fall by the wayside. One example is the 1927 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1927/wagner-jauregg/biographical/">Julius Wagner-Jauregg</a> for treating syphilis by infecting patients with malaria.</p> Fri, 22 Sep 2023 23:42:54 +0000 Maya McKeown, B.Sc. 9651 at /oss 40 Years of Human Experimentation in America: The Tuskegee Study /oss/article/history/40-years-human-experimentation-america-tuskegee-study <p>Starting in 1932, 600 African American men from Macon County, Alabama were enlisted to partake in a scientific experiment on syphilis. The “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,” was conducted by the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) and involved blood tests, x-rays, spinal taps and autopsies of the subjects.</p> Fri, 25 Jan 2019 17:00:00 +0000 Ada McVean B.Sc. 7554 at /oss The Right Chemistry: Mad Hatters were not merely fictional /oss/article/history/right-chemistry-mad-hatters-were-not-merely-fictional <p></p><div class="media-youtube-video media-element file-default media-youtube-1"> <iframe class="media-youtube-player" id="media-youtube-wdbe5i559mi" width="640" height="390" title="Dr. Joe Schwarcz: Mad Hatters were not merely fictional" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/wDbE5i559mI?wmode=opaque&controls=&enablejsapi=1&modestbranding=1&playerapiid=media-youtube-wdbe5i559mi&origin=https%3A//www.mcgill.ca&rel=0" name="Dr. Joe Schwarcz: Mad Hatters were not merely fictional" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="">Video of Dr. Joe Schwarcz: Mad Hatters were not merely fictional</iframe></div> Wed, 09 May 2018 22:16:48 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 7064 at /oss In the 16th Century Someone Tried to Poison Benvenuto Cellini, but Instead Cured his Syphilis... How? /oss/article/health-history/16th-century-enemies-sculptor-benvenuto-cellini-attempted-murder-him-poisoning-his-food-instead-they <p>With mercuric chloride, also known as “corrosive sublimate.” People have been intrigued by mercury and its compounds for over 3500 years. Ko Hung, an ancient Chinese alchemist was one of the first to describe how heating red cinnabar, or mercury sulfide, yielded silvery mercury metal. From then on alchemists believed that mercury was the key to transmuting elements into gold, and experimented with all sorts of concoctions to try and achieve this. They of course never made gold but were successful in converting mercury into various mercury compounds.</p> Fri, 24 May 2013 18:11:44 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 1944 at /oss