Nineteenth-Century British Medicine and Medical Care (original) (raw)

Medicine and Medical Care

• Pasteur and Lister: A Chronicle of Scientific Influence
• Joseph Lister, James Syme, and Victorian Medical Education
• Bacteriology and the Rise of the Germ Theory of Disease
• Medical Care
• Medical Developments
• Victorian Hospitals
• Recent Dissertations on Women's History and Health Care
• Medicine and Public Health in Victorian Literature and the Arts
• Nineteenth-Century British Medicine: Suggested Reading

Medical Technology

• Contraception and birth control in Victorian Britain
• Victorians and the Discovery of X-rays

Dentistry

• Institutional Dental Instruction before 1810
• The Need for Dentistry: A Victorian Newspaper Column about the Toothache
• Felix Weiss, Vernon Galbray, and the Professionalization of Victorian Dentistry

Pharmacology

• Escharotic Medicine, 1805-1889
• The Discovery & Early Use of Zinc Chloride in Medicine
• Zinc Chloride Enters the British Dispensary
• William Burnett, Zinc Chloride, & the Principle of Disinfection
• Zinc Chloride & Public Health
• Jesse Weldon Fell, M.D., Zinc Chloride, Bloodwort, & Furtive Medicine
• Dr. Fell's Investigation Under Scrutiny
• The Trial & Reinventions of Dr. John Pattison
• Dr. John Pattison's Caustic Temperament
• Campbell De Morgan, M.D. & the Mixed Mode of Operation
• Pharmacy symbols

Medical Ethics

• Anna Kingsford, Anti-Vivisectionist
• Mona Caird, "Is Torture for a Good End Justifiable?," The Ethics of Vivisection (1900)

Important Individuals in Victorian Medicine

• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917)
• Francis Galton
• Joseph Hodgson
• Joseph Lister (the elder), who perfected the microsope, discovering shape of blood corpuscles
• Joseph Lord Lister (1827-1912) and Antiseptic Surgery
• Florence Nightingale and Nursing
• Mary Seacole
• John Snow and waterborne disease
• Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870)
• Henry Wentworth Acland (1815-1900)

Related material

• Public Health (sitemap)
• Victorian attitudes towards Health
• The Victorian Environment (sitemap)
• Addiction (sitemap)
• Diseases (sitemap)

Book Reviews

• Bad Medicine: A Review of Doctoring the Novel: Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle (2012)
• Purity and Danger in Malvern: A Review of Pauline Conolly's The Water Doctor's Daughters
• "Language Is Our Rubicon": A Review of Jennifer Esmail's Reading Victorian Deafness

Last modified 27 January 2025