Victorian Medical Breakthroughs

Victorian Medicine History: Breakthroughs, Pioneers

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As medical knowledge increased, the prospect of surgery was no longer a likely death sentence, and great leaps were made in …

Health & Medicine in the 19th Century - Victoria and Albert Museum

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Early Victorian ideas of human physiology involved a clear understanding of anatomy (at least among experts; but the populace often had hazy knowledge of the location and role of internal organs), allied to a …

Health and hygiene in the 19th century | The British Library

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Victorian Britain Home Articles Collection items Teaching resources Health and hygiene in the 19th century In a time when diseases like smallpox, cholera and TB were insatiable and continued to relapse in …

15 Medical Inventions And Discoveries of the 1800's That Have …

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History of medicine - Medicine in the 18th century

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One highly significant medical advance, late in the century, was vaccination. Smallpox, disfiguring and often fatal, was widely prevalent. Inoculation, which had been practiced in the East, was popularized in …

19th century advances in medical knowledge - BBC Bitesize

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At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. Germ theory …

Medical Developments In Britain During The Nineteenth …

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The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978: In the first half of the century the medical world was raising the expectation that treatment …

Victorian Medical Breakthroughs - 1876 Victorian England Revisited

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Victorian Medical Breakthroughs - 1876 Victorian England Revisited Many signficant breakthroughs were made in the field of medicine during the Victorian period. Medical …

10 Gruesome And Shocking Facts About Victorian Surgery

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Historian Lindsey Fitzharris, author of The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine, writes, “The first two rows were occupied by the other dressers, and …

7 incredible medical breakthroughs that changed the world

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For a more recent big breakthrough in the medical field, you don’t need to look any further than gene therapy, which involves introducing genetic material into cells to treat or …