Category:Medicine

See also Category:Science for medicine in space. If you're currently pregnant get your ass off this page. I use this stuff to write horror stories.

Category: Behavior - Humans: the manual

Birth

• What no one tells new moms about what childbirth can do to their bodies
• How to Safely Deliver a Baby In Case of Emergency
• A Man's Guide to Pregnancy: How to Deliver a Baby in a Pinch
• What is a Placental Abruption?
• Is it safe to be at a high altitude during pregnancy?
• Water breaking: what it feels like
• How to cut the umbilical cord of a baby

Disaster (Personal)

• Hypovolemia aka "bleeding out" (Wikipedia)
• Tachypnea aka abnormally fast breathing (Wikipedia)
• Thready Pulse

Disease and Disaster (Population)

• Epidemics and Pandemics in the U.S.
• Epidemics in Colonial Philadelphia from 1699-1799 and The Risk of Dying
• The Language of Infectious Disease: A Light-Hearted Review
• Pain Scales

Disease and Disaster (Specific)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• The CDC homepage
• Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) -- these are the epidemiologists who go wherever an outbreak appears to have happened and research it, to figure out what the hell caused it. Their work ranges everywhere from biological terrorism to natural causes.

Irish Potato Famine

• Great Famine (Ireland) (Wikipedia)

Influenza

• People at high risk for flu complications by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
• 100 years ago, 'Spanish flu' shut down Philadelphia – and wiped out thousands by Jon Kopp and Bob McGovern on Philly Voice September 27, 2018
• Influenza (“Spanish Flu” Pandemic, 1918-19) by Thomas Wirth on The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

COVID-19

• COVID-19 History and Resources because shit, sometimes history's happening right the fuck now

Medication and Treatment

• Botanical Sexism Cultivates Home-Grown Allergies by Thomas Leo Ogren on Scientific American explains how just planting male trees and shrubs contributes to asthma and allergies
• Sleep -- look, it makes me feel better...
• Cocaine
• Smelling Salts on Wikipedia

Vision

• How far can we see if unobstructed? Hint: usually 12 miles.