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Health and Medicine - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project

Martha Minerva Franklin: Breaking Barriers for Black Nurses

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    Emily Clark

  • Town(s):
    Meriden, New Haven, New Milford

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Ethel Collins Dunham: Pioneer in Pediatrics

  • Writer:
    Emily Clark

  • Town(s):
    Hartford, New Haven

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Alan L. Hart: Pioneer in Medicine and Transgender History

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Connecticut Discovered Lyme Disease – Who Knew?

Benjamin Spock: Raising the World’s Children

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Alice Hamilton: The Nation’s Leading Expert on Industrial Diseases

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Dr. Mary B. Moody Challenges Victorian Mores About Women in Medicine

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This Won’t Hurt a Bit! A Brief History of Anesthesia

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Sylvester Graham: Progressive Advocate for Healthy Living

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Morton Biskind Warned the World About DDT

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Farmington’s Hospital Rock Dates Back to 18th-Century Smallpox Inoculation

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Benjamin Silliman and Soda Water – Who Knew?

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Helen F. Boyd Leads the Charge for Better Public Health

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Miss James, First Woman Pharmacist in CT Right in Old Saybrook

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LGBTQ+ Mental Health Treatment in the 20th Century

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Franklin’s Ashbel Woodward was a Battlefield Surgeon and Historian

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Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia Originated in Stamford

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Eighty-Five Hundred Souls: the 1918-1919 Flu Epidemic in Connecticut

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Horace Wells Discovers Pain-free Dentistry

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The Pest House Completed – Today in History: December 4

Taking on the State: Griswold v. Connecticut

  • Writer:
    Nancy Finlay

  • Town(s):
    New Haven

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Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut – Today in History: November 1

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The White Plague: Progressive-Era Tuberculosis Treatments in Connecticut

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Seaside Tuberculosis Sanatorium: Waterford’s Contested Oceanfront Gem

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Aristocratic Dental Cream Gets Squeezed

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Jimmy Piersall’s Public Struggle with Mental Illness

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Crisis Management during the American Civil War: The Hartford Soldiers’ Aid Society

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Gallaudet’s Vision Advances Deaf Education

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Landscape Architecture Helps in Healing – Who Knew?

Bridgeport Women Answer the Call – Today in History: April 15

New Canaan’s Pioneering Female Physician

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Connecticut and the Comstock Law

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Hilda Crosby Standish, Early Proponent of Women’s Reproductive Health

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Anna Louise James Makes History with Medicine

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Dr. E. Irene Boardman Never Stopped Serving the Public

Ruth Hovey: Heroic Battlefield Nurse

  • Writer:
    Emily Clark

  • Town(s):
    Hartford

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Ending the Danbury Shakes: A Story of Workers’ Rights and Corporate Responsibility

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The Father of Gastric Physiology Born – Today in History: November 21

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The 1961 Hartford Hospital Fire

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Sanitary Fair – Today in History: July 25

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First American Medicine Patent – Today in History: April 30

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The Innumerable Accolades Afforded Dr. William H. Welch

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The First Hospice – Who Knew?

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Today in History – Fales & Gray Explosion Underscores Need for a Hartford Hospital

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Connecticut Poor Law Aimed to Care for the Needy

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Civil War Soldier Dies of Gangrene – Today in History: July 10

Heart Pump out of an Erector Set – Who Knew?

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Designed to Heal: The Connecticut General Hospital for the Insane

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Waterbury’s Radium Girls

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Health Department Fights Unseen Enemies During World War I

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Hartford Retreat for the Insane Advanced Improved Standards of Care

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Medical Pioneer Eli Todd born – Today in History: July 22

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