Victorian Medical Treatment

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 | Livingstone Online

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10 Dubious Victorian Cures From the First …

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First published by the American drug manufacturer Merck & Co in 1899, the manual’s original …

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 …

Medicine in the 19th Century - Strange Victorian Era Cures

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Imagine a strong headache, and you have no aspirin, ibuprofen, or any other migraine medication. You will search for a cure as well. Here are some crazy ideas …

Victorian-Era Orgasms and the Crisis of Peer Review - The Atlantic

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September 6, 2018 It’s among the most delectably scandalous stories in the history of medicine: At the height of the Victorian era, doctors regularly treated their …

10 Strange Victorian Treatments From 'The First Merck …

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The First Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy actually documented all of these wild ‘cures’ and it is the oldest continuously published medical textbook. It was first published …

7 of the Most Outrageous Medical Treatments in History

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Addictive drugs like heroin were given to kids to cure coughs, electric shock therapy has been a long used treatment for impotence, and “miracle” diet pills were …

Female Hysteria: When Victorian Doctors Used to Finger …

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In the Victorian Era – specifically 1837 to 1901 – doctors treated woman by genital stimulation to induce “hysterical paroxysm” or an orgasm. This hysteria was …

Female Hysteria: When Victorian Doctors Used to Finger …

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In the Victorian Era – specifically 1837 to 1901 – doctors treated woman by genital stimulation to induce “hysterical paroxysm” or an orgasm. This hysteria was …