Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Victorian medicine illustration As the Victorian era began in 1837, the world of medicine was still in a relatively dangerous ...
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 ...
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Victorian women's medicine was a scam - and men paid the price
In the 19th century, “female hysteria” was considered a legitimate medical diagnosis, blamed for everything from anxiety to irritability. Victorian doctors developed treatments that reflected more ...
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 ...
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 ...
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