The Swedish physiologist Hans Selye was a pioneer stress researcher. He discovered the processes that link stress with heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancer. Selye conducted very ...

2 of 8 — This ad for Spud cigarettes asks if smokers turn to cigarettes to calm down. If so, Spuds are the solution. Spud,1929. 3 of 8 — Camel used the confessions of working smokers to show that ...

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In 1936, endocrinologist Hans Selye performed experiments on rats. He was studying the effects of a new hormone, and so he injected the hormone into lab rats, hoping to observe how it affects them.

Whether avoiding predators in the bush or in the office, humans have always had to cope with stress. But use of the word to mean that familiar clammy-handed, racing-heart, jumpy-tense feeling was ...

The modern idea of stress began on a rooftop in Canada, with a handful of rats freezing in the winter wind. This was 1936 and by that point the owner of the rats, an endocrinologist named Hans Selye, ...