The plague was once the most feared disease in the world, capable of wiping out hundreds of millions of people in seemingly unstoppable global pandemics and afflicting its victims with painfully ...

There are ways to dress protectively during a pandemic, and there are ways that scream, “too soon.” A mysterious black-swathed figure dressed in full 17th-century plague doctor garb falls into that ...

While it may seem silly today, when Hippocrates defined the four humors—blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm—the Greek physician of the fourth century B.C. built on the best science (or natural ...