Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Ulysses S. Grant


Alarmed by his excessive drinking, Ulysses S. Grant's doctor warned the future Civil War hero and president that he had only two years to live. The year was 1860.

Friday, November 18, 2011

Cancer

Cancer got its name from the mistaken medieval belief that it only afflicted people born between June 21st and July 23rd.