Victorian Era Medical Practices

Health & Medicine in the 19th Century

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In the early Victorian era it was dominated by the gentlemen physicians of the Royal College (founded 1518), with surgeons and apothecaries occupying lower positions. The British Medical …

Victorian Medicine | Livingstone Online

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Victorian Era Doctors, Medical Practitioners

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Victorian Era Doctors, Medical Practitioners. The methods of treatment and the medical accomplishments that were employed during the Victorian era were very different from the methods of …

Medicine and Public Health during the Victorian Era

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Medicine and Public Health during the Victorian era (1837 – 1901) were paradoxically both progressive and conservative. Despite the developing studies during the first of half of the …

The Gruesome, Bloody World of Victorian Surgery …

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He takes Louis Pasteur’s germ theory and he marries it to medical practice with antisepsis. And he is also the one who …

Medicine in the 19th Century - Strange …

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Influence of the Victorian Era. Medicine grew in size and regulation. The influence of the Victorian Era cannot be ignored. While the era is more famous for its influence in home interior design and fashion, …

10 Dubious Victorian Cures From the First …

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The practice remained a standard treatment for many ailments, including nausea and morning sickness during pregnancy, well into the 19th century. It was thought to regulate the pulse, …

Health & Medicine – The Victorian Historian

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A number of quack doctors began polluting the medical field, using mysticism as a form of curing patients and selling “medicines“ which either had no effect or led to further decline in health, including …

10 Gruesome And Shocking Facts About …

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Surgery in the Victorian era was lethal, but not due to the fast-handed surgeons. Instead, it was the high probability of infection after the patient left the operating table. According to …

The 10 Most Insane Medical Practices in …

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Bloodletting was one of the most enduring and popular medical practices in history, originated by the Greeks and used up until the 19th century for, well, basically everything. If you were …