Victorian Medical Inventions

Health & Medicine in the 19th Century

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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 …

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 …

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

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Drugs in Victorian Britain | Wellcome …

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The Victorians took not just alcohol and opium but cannabis, coca, mescal and, with the invention of the hypodermic …

Victorian Era Discoveries / Inventions

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Technological inventions in Victorian era Invention of Telegraph Telephone Invention Other major Victorian inventions Cars and Bicycles Mechanical Industry Electric Bulb Railways Top 5 weird …

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 …

16 Medical Procedures and Devices from …

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Invented by Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw, the first iron lung was a tank respirator that provided artificial respiration until the afflicted person could breathe on their own again. It was a …

7 of the most gruesome medical devices in history - STAT

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1. Artificial leeches When in the 1800s live leeches were unavailable, or perhaps too gross, this metal cylinder with blades performed the same function. Its …

10 Gruesome And Shocking Facts About …

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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 …

7 of the Most Outrageous Medical …

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In 1884, an Austrian ophthalmologist, Carl Koller, discovered that a few drops of cocaine solution put on a patient’s cornea acted as a topical anesthetic. It made the eye immobile and...