Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Victorian medicine illustration As the Victorian era began in 1837, the world of medicine was still in a relatively dangerous ...

In the 19th century, “female hysteria” was considered a legitimate medical diagnosis, blamed for everything from anxiety to irritability. Victorian doctors developed treatments that reflected more ...

Books about Victorian medicine are an acquired taste. They’re science by way of B-horror movies, tales of progress set amid blood and spatter and gray guts. And Lindsey Fitzharris’ slim, atmospheric ...

The public is invited to bring a bag lunch at noon, Wednesday, Jan. 21, and listen as Wilma Korevaar discusses Victorian medical theories and practices - how medicine made great advances in the ...

Doctors had access to X-ray equipment; on the other hand, if a surgeon dropped his scalpel on the floor, he picked up the instrument and continued to operate with it. Such is the paradoxical nature of ...