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 ...

Charles Darwin raised the question of whether darker skin is correlated with immunity to certain diseases in his 1871 book "The Descent of Man," an erroneous claim that reflected beliefs about 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 ...

Access these resources as a member - it's free! Author Janice Nimura, The Doctors Blackwell, and journalist Olivia Campbell, Women in White Coats, discussed their respective books on the history of ...

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 ...

Victorian society struggled to acknowledge this disaster because admitting the problem would require confronting uncomfortable truths about medicine, commerce, and the gap between the era’s moral ...

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 ...