The original version of this entry was published on December 15, 2018. This is a second edit to correct WordPress deletions of illustrations. The first edit was a response to anti-science actions and attitudes of our current national administration, as well as to its to attempted reversion to medical practices Continue Reading
Medical History
The “Plague” at the Chicago 1933 Century of Progress
The 1893 the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago had its serial killer, H.H. Holmes, made famous as “The Devil in the White City.” The actual extent of Holmes’s crime spree is probably far smaller than the legend and the book suggest, but popular imagination keeps the legend alive. Most people Continue Reading
The Dentist in the Park
You can picture the faces. Visitors to Lincoln Park walk up to a statue, look at it and walk away saying, “Who?” Many of Chicago’s parks contain monuments that are like that. Humboldt. Schiller. Altgeld, not to name just Germans. Schiller. A sculpture that stands in a lovely, very prominent Continue Reading