Victorian Medical Practices

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 …

Victorian Medicine History: Breakthroughs, …

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As medical knowledge increased, the prospect of surgery was no longer a likely death …

Victorian Medicine | Livingstone Online

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The Gruesome, Bloody World of Victorian …

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

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 …

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 …

Medicine in the 19th Century - Strange …

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During the Victorian Era, people had a clear understanding of anatomy. At least the experts did. The general public often chose some strange cures instead of regular medicine. …

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 …

10 Gruesome And Shocking Facts About …

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However, during the Victorian era, the ancient practice of bloodletting hadn’t quite died out just yet. Victorian surgeons would use live leeches to suck the …

7 of the Most Outrageous Medical …

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In an effort to spare the doctors this work, one ingenious practitioner named Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville created a steam-powered, “electromechanical medical …