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Maimonides Children’s Hospital – A Brooklyn-Based Medical Institution

Maimonides Children's Hospital is the only specialized pediatric hospital in Brooklyn,...

Brooklyn medicine: Dutch conservatism, anti-vaxxers and confrontation with Manhattan

The beginning of the official medical history of Brooklyn can be...

The story of Cutler’s Drug Store, a Brooklyn pharmacist and military man

The pharmacies of the past centuries are very different from their...

History of Brooklyn’s Kingsboro Psychiatric Center

As medicine has evolved, it has undergone tremendous transformations. Psychiatry is...

How a Brooklyn entrepreneur saved newborn babies

Not all great discoveries or breakthroughs were made by scientists. In...
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Cholera—one. Cholera—two. Cholera—three. How Brooklyn Learned to Survive

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