Though we have been [conducting examinations upon the human body since the time of the ancient Romans](https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/28/The-Complete-History-of-the-Autopsy/), surgeries were only recorded during the M...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/01/06/The-History-of-First-Surgeries/We've been cutting open human bodies to see what's inside for thousands of years, and animal bodies before that. The art of determining the cause of death by autopsy came about long after the study of anatomy arose, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/12/28/The-Complete-History-of-the-Autopsy/Rear Admiral Joseph Giles Eaton had a distinguished Navy career that led to him being assigned command of the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1905. After his first wife died, he married her nurse, Mrs. Jennie May Ainsworth, who...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/09/13/The-Admiral-Faces-a-Mutiny/(Image credit: John Patrick Thomas)How one mysterious medical case helped map the brain.On April 11, 1861, Dr. Pierre Paul Broca examined a man in the surgical wing of the Bicêtre hospital near Paris. The 51-year-o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/02/08/Where-Does-Language-Live/We get the big stories in our news, but they fade from the headlines eventually. That doesn't mean it's over for the people involved, it just means that the media has moved on to the next big story. You might recall the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/11/12/5-Famous-News-Stories-You-Didnt-Know-Had-Insane-Epilogues/King Louis XIV was upset that so many members of t... ...ing off in a hurry. It started in the late 1660s. Autopsies showed the victims' insides were blackened, as it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/10/06/The-Scandalous-Witch-Hunt-That-Poisoned-17th-Century-France/Reverend Jacob S. Harden was only 22 years old and trying to establish himself as the pastor in Andersontown, New Jersey. He had married Louisa Dorland under pressure from her parents and rumors about him that Harden sus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/09/29/How-Not-to-Avoid-a-Murder-Charge/The following article is from the book Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into California.A wealthy woman cofounds a prestigious university as an homage to her son, but soon finds herself embroiled in a bitter fight wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/06/02/Who-Killed-Jane-Stanford/The following article is from the book Uncle John's True Crime: A Classic Collection of Crooks, Cops, and Capers. A woman is found dead...a well-known celebrity is charged with murder...the whole world follows the trial....
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/04/14/The-Fatty-Arbuckle-Scandal/(Image Link)Contrary to popular belief police officers and detectives don't want to solve every case they work on, but the reasons why they'd rather leave some cases unsolved would surprise you.Sometimes they're trying t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/12/30/Detectives-And-Police-Officers-Reveal-The-Cases-They-Didnt-Want-To-Solve/
