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.
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 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 Great Filth by Stephen Haliday; Stephen Halliday
Call Number: Interlibrary Loan
ISBN: 9780750943789
Publication Date: 2003-03-01
Bacteria in Britain, 1880-1939 by Rosemary Wall
Call Number: InterLibrary Loan
ISBN: 9781317319177
Publication Date: 2015-10-06
Focusing on the years between the identification of bacteria and the production of antibiotic medicine, Wall presents a study into how bacteriology has affected both clinical practice and public knowledge.
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.
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