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 ...

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 ...

Could You Survive Victorian Surgery?' In this video, History Hit's Alice Loxton dives deep into London’s grisly past. She goes under the knife and takes a forensic look at the horrors of Victorian ...

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 ...