by Ann Beach | Sep 17, 2025 | Medicine
Graham crackers in S’mores. Graham crackers and peanut butter, the perfect after-school snack. Teddy Grahams for toddlers. What could be more wholesome? Their origin was quite different from their current use. Let me tell you more. Sylvester Graham (1794-1851) is...
by Ann Beach | Aug 26, 2025 | Medicine
In one of the first great battles of the Civil War, Grant’s Union Army was pitted against Johnston’s and Buell’s Confederate forces at Shiloh, in Tennessee. A now bucolic place in Tennessee, Shiloh is near the southern Tennessee border with Mississippi and Alabama, on...
by Ann Beach | Aug 16, 2025 | Medicine
Do you still have your kids’ baby teeth in the back of the jewelry box somewhere? Does your mom still have yours? Do you know there was a time when baby teeth changed world political policy? It all goes back to the 1940s-1950s. The first nuclear bomb test blast was in...
by Ann Beach | Jul 21, 2025 | Medicine
People like to characterize present-day parents as helicopters, always hovering over their children, children who have every moment of their day scheduled and supervised. Those same people think of Boomer Babies as free-range kids, who were kicked out of the house in...
by Ann Beach | Jul 11, 2025 | Medicine
The late 19th and early 20th Century was a time of optimism about many things, but not about premature babies. In an era that celebrated healthy babies, with Better Baby contests, awarding prizes to the biggest, fittest, best-looking babies, there was little to offer...
