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by Gerald Weissmann


  Poe, Edgar Allan

  on chess

  Doyle and

  “The Gold Bug” by

  The Murders in the Rue Morgue by

  mystery genre and

  polio

  politics

  Polley, Howard

  polonium

  Potter, Jack

  Pratt, Silas G.

  prayer

  Galton on

  for healing

  life expectancy and

  research studies on

  STEP on

  Targ’s studies on

  pregnancy. See also fetal abnormalities

  Priestley, Joseph

  Proust, Adrien

  Proust, Marcel

  purulent ophthalmia

  quarantine

  for Asiatic cholera

  cordon sanitaire method of

  for Ebola

  opponents of

  Quinn, Susan

  RA. See rheumatoid arthritis

  race. See also discrimination; eugenics

  racial segregation

  radioactivity

  Radium Institute

  radium sickness

  Ragan, Charles

  realism

  reason

  reductionism

  refugees

  from Germany

  immigrants and

  New York University and

  Syrian

  during World War II

  Reichstein, Thaddeus

  religion

  atheism and

  prayer in

  science and

  Remembrance of Things Past (Proust, M.)

  Remicade (infliximab)

  rheumatic fever

  rheumatic gout

  Garrod, A. B., on

  Garrod, A. E., on

  James, A., and

  rheumatoid arthritis (RA). See also arthritis

  rheumatoid factor

  rheumatology

  ribonucleic acid (RNA)

  CRISPR and

  dsRNA

  Fire, Mello, and RNA interference

  Rioch, David

  ritual bathing

  RNA. See ribonucleic acid

  Robert Morris University

  RoboCop

  Robscheit-Robbins, Frieda

  Roentgen, Wilhelm

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Roosevelt, James

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  Rorimer, James

  Rose, Harry

  Rothfield, Lawrence

  Ruscha, Ed

  Sabin, Albert

  Sainte-Hilaire, Isidore Geoffroy

  Salk, Jonas

  sanitation

  Asiatic cholera and

  cordon sanitaire and

  Ebola and

  revolution in

  in West Africa

  sauerkraut

  Schama, Simon

  Scheele, Carl Wilhelm

  Schine, Cathleen

  scholarships

  science

  alternative and complementary

  American

  art and

  Ayurvedic

  criminal investigation and

  ethics and

  experimental

  in France

  intelligent design and

  medicine and

  religion and

  science fiction

  scientific memoir

  scientific theory

  Scotland

  segregation

  self-examination

  The Selfish Gene (Dawkins)

  seminal discovery

  Sen, George

  Severinghous, J. W.

  sexuality

  Shorter, Edward

  Shpetner, Howard

  Shwartzman phenomenon

  Sifton, Elisabeth

  Simon, Eric

  skin branding

  SLE. See systemic lupus erythematosus

  Slocumb, Charles

  Smith, Adam

  Smuts, Jan

  Snow, C. P.

  social change

  social Darwinism

  social guilt

  social norms

  Socrates

  Sontag, Susan

  soybean oil

  Späth, Ernest

  Spiegelman, Art

  spinal irritation

  Brown on

  calomel and

  Christian Science and

  description of

  diagnosis of

  Hammond on

  Holmes on

  hysteria and

  symptoms of

  treatment for

  in women

  Stagg, Alonzo

  stamps

  Stangeways Research Laboratory

  Stanton, Edward

  STEP. See “The Study of Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer”

  steroids

  Stetson, Chandler

  streptococci

  Strouse, Jean

  Stuart, Anne (Queen Anne)

  Act of Denization and

  antiphospholipid antibody syndrome and

  children of

  SLE and

  Treaty of Utrecht and

  United Kingdom under

  United States and

  Stuart Dynasty

  A Study in Scarlet (Doyle)

  “The Study of Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer” (STEP) (American Heart Journal)

  Suez Canal Company

  Sulzberger, Arthur Hayes

  Swift, Jonathan

  Swingle, Wilbur

  Syrian refugees

  systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)

  Targ, Elisabeth F.

  tattoos

  tender-spot doctrine

  Teratology Society

  thalidomide

  Thomas, Lewis

  accomplishments of

  critics of

  death of

  early life of

  experiments by

  family of

  immunology and

  literary works by

  at NYU

  on rheumatic fever

  Shwartzman phenomenon and

  The Youngest Science by

  Thomas Aquinas

  Thompson, Richard

  TNF. See tumor necrosis factor

  Todd, Alexander

  Toulon

  transcendentalists

  travel bans

  A Treatise on Diseases of the Nervous System (Hammond)

  A Treatise on Insanity in Its Medical Relations (Hammond)

  Treaty of Utrecht (1713)

  Trilling, Lionel

  tumor necrosis factor (TNF)

  typhus

  unexplained medical syndromes. See also fibromyalgia; spinal irritation

  United Kingdom

  Act of Denization in

  Act of Settlement in

  Acts of Union in

  Blackwell, Elizabeth, in

  during Glorious Revolution of 1688

  under Hessians and King George III

  immigrants in

  before Queen Anne

  under Queen Anne

  Treaty of Utrecht and

  War of Spanish Succession and

  United States

  American Navy in

  American Revolution in

  American science

  Chinese Exclusion Act in

  Ebola in

  Emancipation Proclamation in

  gun-related deaths in

  Hessians, King George III, and

  immigrants in

  Immigration and Nationality Act in

  military-industrial complex in

  Queen Anne and

  social change in

  University of Chicago

  uranium

  vaccination

  Vallee, Richard

  van Leeuwenhoek, Antonj

  Vargesson, Neil

  video games

  Vienna, Italy

  Vilcek, Jan

  Vinson, Ambe
r Joy

  viruses. See also specific viruses

  bacteriophages

  RNA interference and

  sauerkraut and

  Vital Signs (Rothfield)

  vitamin A

  vitamin B12

  war

  Korean War

  War of Spanish Succession

  in West Africa

  World War II

  Ward, Samuel A.

  Watson, James

  Watson, Thomas B.

  Waugh, Evelyn

  WEA. See Woman’s Education Association

  Webster, John

  Webster-Parkman case

  Weller, Tom

  Wellesley

  Wessely, Simon

  West Africa

  Whipple, George C.

  white cells

  WHO. See World Health Organization

  Wilberforce, Samuel

  Woman’s Education Association (WEA)

  women

  Blackwell family and advancement of

  Curie, M., and

  female reproductive tract

  Holmes family and advancement of

  with hysteria

  medical misogyny and

  in medicine

  social change for

  spinal irritation in

  women’s rights

  women’s suffrage

  World Health Organization (WHO)

  World War II

  Wren, Christopher

  Wyman, Jeffries

  Wyrzykowski, Dennis Anthony

  Yalow, Roslyn

  The Youngest Science (Thomas)

  Zika

  Zinsser, Hans

  Zola, Emile

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