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. In her ...

For hundreds of years alcohol was widely used in medicine, both as a therapy in its own right and as well as a carrier for other substances. In 1873, a group committed to removing alcohol from ...

Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 75, No. 3 (Fall 2001), pp. 406-445 (40 pages) This article highlights the role played by commercial life insurance companies in determining the response to ...

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 ...