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...
by Ann Beach | Jun 30, 2025 | Medicine
Horseshoe crabs have been around for 450 million years. They’ve survived several mass extinctions and have outlived the dinosaurs. Arthropods more related to spiders than crabs, these primitive, resilient sea creatures are coastal dwellers, preferring the ocean...
