As the Victorian era began in 1837, the world of medicine was still in a relatively dangerous state; hospitals were as likely to speed up your ailment as cure you, surgery was done without reliable ...

Doctors had access to X-ray equipment; on the other hand, if a surgeon dropped his scalpel on the floor, he picked up the instrument and continued to operate with it. Such is the paradoxical nature of ...

In her new book, “The Butchering Art,” historian Lindsey Fitzharris looks at the world of nineteenth-century surgery and how one man’s invention and perseverance changed the world of medicine. That ...

Books about Victorian medicine are an acquired taste. They’re science by way of B-horror movies, tales of progress set amid blood and spatter and gray guts. And Lindsey Fitzharris’ slim, atmospheric ...

But, for authenticity, fake pharmacists should have doled out opium THE BBC gave TV viewers a history lesson last night with Victorian Pharmacy, another step back through time from the makers of ...

Access these resources as a member - it's free! Author Janice Nimura, The Doctors Blackwell, and journalist Olivia Campbell, Women in White Coats, discussed their respective books on the history of ...

IT is stating the obvious to say that medical science has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent decades. To see how far we’ve come, however, you need to go a bit further back – to early Victorian ...

Cutting edge of Victorian medicine revealed in new BBC Two comedy Quacks The extraordinary, daring and wild days of Victorian medicine is the setting for brand new BBC Two comedy series Quacks, ...

We still have a Victorian view of those who choose a career in health and think just of being a doctor or a nurse as they're the people we see when we visit our GP or go into a hospital. But there is ...

The site of a large Victorian medicine factory is set to transform into an £80 million housing development providing 400 new homes. The 7.6 acre land near Dartford train station, once the home of a ...