Probably few Bible scholars or scientists are aware that Daniel—the same Daniel who was cast into the

The Hippocratic medical ethics oath is attributed to Hippocrates, and was adopted as a guide to the

In the first century B.C. Cleopatra devised an experiment to test the accuracy of the theory that

“The eternal providence has appointed me to watch over the life and health of Thy creatures. May

Dr. Maitland inoculated six prisoners with smallpox, promising them release from prison. (Read D. Wooton, Bad Medicine:

Jenner used children to test a theory — based on folklore, not scientific evidence — that cowpox,

J. Marion Sims performed multiple experimental surgeries on enslaved African women without the benefit of anesthesia. After

Dr. Armauer Hensen, a Norweigian microbiologist who discovered the bacterium that causes leprosy, having failed to grow

Louis Pasteur, a French chemist, microbiologist who laid the foundation for vaccines. After testing the rabies vaccine

Arthur Wentworth, MD, a pediatrician trained at Harvard Medical School, performed spinal taps on 29 babies and

Giuseppe Sanarelli, MD, Italian bacteriologist injects the bacillus causing yellow fever five patients without their consent. Three

Yellow Fever Dormitory Yellow fever epidemics struck the United States repeatedly in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Biomedical research in Germany was considered the most advanced in the world — both in its development

The Carnegie Institution established the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, under the directorship of