The Dancers of Strasbourg and the Cure That Fed the Plague
In the summer of 1518 a street in Strasbourg filled with people who could not stop dancing, and the official remedy may have made things worse.
GRADFLIX Editors2 Qs · Medium
Medicine & Health passages for CAT RC
5 long-form medicine & health essays, written at the density of real CAT passages, each with CAT, XAT and GMAT-style questions and explanations. For real exam passages, practise the solved CAT RC PYQs; for a daily routine, see CAT RC practice.
The Pump Handle and the Epidemic Already Fading
Removing a pump handle is said to have stopped a cholera outbreak in London. The truth is quieter, and it matters more.
Abhishek Leela Pandey5 Qs · Medium
The Placebo That Knew It Was a Placebo
Patients in a 2010 Harvard trial were handed a bottle labelled placebo and told that the pills held no medicine. Many of them improved anyway, and medicine has not yet agreed on why.
Abhishek Leela Pandey3 Qs · Hard
The Stink That Saved London
In 1858 a wrong theory of disease pushed London to build the sewers that ended its cholera. The success was real, and it may be the most dangerous kind of evidence.
Abhishek Leela Pandey4 Qs · Hard
The Chemistry of Belief
Explore the placebo effect and how belief, psychology and modern medicine together shape healing, pain and human biology.
Abhishek Leela Pandey4 Qs