Medicine
Map of John Snow’s London 1859
An intriguing snippet to put you in touch with John Snow and his mapping study of cholera in London in 1859
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 MoreNurse Training in the C19th & C20th
Nurse training, the Florence Nightingale way. The lives of our ancestors were improved beyond measure by the work and resolve of Florence Nightingale
Read MoreVictorian Hospitals
Until the C19th century, serious illness amongst our ancestors was treated at home. The establishment of Victorian hospitals began as overcrowded workhouse infirmaries could no longer cope with the volume of patients in their care
Read MorePhrenology- a Victorian obsession?
In 1824, George Combe’s ‘Elements of Phrenology’ was published. Phrenology was the identification of an individual’s faculties by feeling the shape of the skull. It was argued by Franz Joseph Gall, an Austrian physician, along with Johann Spurzheim that mind and brain were connected, in a way that, different characteristics of mind, would give different…
Read MoreCharles Dickens knew Florence Nightingale
We so often study the lives of famous people and their activities in isolation, what is intriguing is when you find how the lives of these people were meshed together
Read MoreRemember the smell of carbolic in schools?
Joseph Lister discovered that carbolic was an effective antiseptic. The smell of carbolic has been with us ever since
Read MoreIntroduction of Antiseptics 1867
The father of antiseptic surgery, Joseph Lister
Read MoreThe plight of sick children 1843
The lack of hospital care for children in 1843
Read MoreGreat Ormond Street Hospital 1852
The plight of sick children in the early C19th
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