The Good Old Days Mishmash

For this week’s trip to the history of medicine, we would like to offer a collection of links worthy of a look. These items have made recent rounds over the internet, and as such deemed interesting by us:
Ancient Egypt’s ‘respected dwarfs’ from the BBC…
Midcentury LSD Experiments at Canadian Mental Hospital and Disney’s 1946 “Story of Menstruation” short on P2P from BoingBoing…
Medpundit looks at Dr. Leonard Wood, “an obscure former army surgeon with an interesting history…”
The National Science Foundation, in time for the 300th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, reports: “Web portal (http://ben.clusty.com) based on clustering technology is offering a new method to separate useful Franklin facts from the normal flood of online information…”
Have a great weekend!