Hospitals
Medieval Leprosy
Medieval leprosy was a complicated part of Medieval society. The idea of the leper as being a carrier of disease is too simplistic. The leper was a person who carried the outward mark of sin, whose purgatory on Earth would be rewarded in heaven.
Read MoreThe Use of Antiseptics in Operating Theatres
The problem of infection in operating theatres had been known about from the end of the C18th through the C19th. More people were dying from infections acquired in the operating theatre than were dying of their ailments. Florence Nightingale highlighted the need for a rigorous approach to hospital hygiene and Lister’s work with carbolic, changed…
Read MoreChloroform For Anaesthesia
The miracle of the discovery of chloroform and it’s use as an anaesthetic by James Young Simpson
Read MoreVictorian Women and the Professions. The Female Doctor
The first female doctors of the C19th. Why were women excluded from the professions in the first half of the C19th and when did it change?
Read MoreThe Institution of Nursing Sisters 1840
Another of Elizabeth Fry’s amazing achievements was the setting up of the Institution of Nursing Sisters
Read MoreNorfolk and Edith Cavell
Norfolk is the birthplace of one of Britain’s most courage humanitarians, Edith Cavell, executed by German forces in WWI
Read MoreMigration of Nightingale Nurses
The migration of the Nightingale nurses, allowed the excellent standards and practises of their training to be disseminated throughout the world
Read MoreA Good Nurse an improving Woman…
Powerful words from Florence Nightingale
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