Science and Nature
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6.7K16Betty and Barney Hill Take a Long, Strange Trip
On Sept. 19, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill made their way back from Montreal to their home in Portsmouth, N.H., after a...
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4.6K5Samuel Thomson Ridicules Modern Medicine
If New Hampshire’s Samuel Thomson had been George Washington’s doctor, America’s first president might well have lived another 10 years. Calomel was...
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6.6K8Phineas Gage Gets an Iron Rod Through His Skull — and Survives
Phineas Gage was a foreman on a railroad crew working in Vermont and New Hampshire in September 1848 when an iron rod...
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3.9K1A Dirty Shoelace For Sore Throats, And Other Home Remedies
Doctors were scarce in early New England, and the colonists had to make do with home remedies. Some home remedies they learned...
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44.7K61Hurricane Carol, So Deadly Her Name Was Retired
Hurricane Carol, one of the worst to hit New England, was so ferocious the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration retired the name...
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6.6K7Martha Ballard: As Good, In Some Ways, As the Best Doctors
Martha Ballard somehow managed to deliver 797 babies in Hallowell (now Augusta), Maine, between 1785 and 1812. She kept her now-famous diary...
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