Research Guides: ENGL 4325/5325- Victorian Literature: Medicine

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AAMCNews Bloody hands, dirty knives: The horrors of Victorian medicine
Surgeons in the 19th century wielded tools caked in bodily fluids, the built-up filth serving as a measure of experience. Medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris shows us just how far we’ve come.
BBC- Victorian Medicine: From Fluke to Theory
From Macbeth-like preparations of arsenic, iron or phosphorous to white coats and x-rays, the Victorian era witnessed a medical revolution. Bruce Robinson gives a diagnosis. The effect of urbanisation, The appliance of science, Breakthroughs, Medicine institutionalised, Significant changes,
The Victorian Web- Public Health
This is a page of links dealing with the health and medicine of Victorian Britain.

Mapping the Victorian Social Body by Gilbert, Pamela
ISBN: 9780791485330

The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explosion of medical and social mapping not only in London but throughout the British Empire as well.

The National Archives- Asylums, psychiatric hospitals and mental health
This is a guide to records of lunatic asylums, their inmates and other records relating to mental health, primarily from the 19th century, held at The National Archives. Lunatic asylums were first established in Britain in the mid-19th century.