Poveglia island in Venice's lagoon was a plague quarantine where tens of thousands died, then became a psychiatric hospital - ...

Poveglia is a small island south of Venice, Italy, with a dark and eerie history. Used as a plague quarantine in the 18th century and later a psychiatric hospital, tens of thousands died there. Some ...

"A plague is upon us'' may have been a common phrase in ancient Jordan, where countless people perished from a mysterious ...

British actress Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott plays journalist Francesca opposite Martin Kemp in Doctor Plague which is released ...

Check out the Announcement Trailer for Plague Doctor: Life in Pestilence, a medieval medical simulation game developed by PST Games. Players will evolve into a reputable doctor as the plague spreads ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook You might not have realized that the Doctor has been the subject of so many romantic storylines in ...

A Florida doctor who authorities said has a history of complaints against him is facing a battery charge after deputies said he allegedly inappropriately touched a woman. Dr. Christopher David Olenek, ...

Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s strangest outbreaks. Around 400 people danced for days without rest in ...

Copyright: © 2025 Published by Elsevier Ltd. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we were all reminded of the long history of masks used as protection against disease ...

The words epidemic and pandemic are Greek in origin, and they point to the fact that the Greeks of antiquity thought a lot about disease, both in its purely medical sense, and as a metaphor for the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A piper of the Clan McLeod in 18th century Scotland, Jamie McCrimmon became the Second Doctor’s ...