
Tag: Medical History


A Cure for (Anything) that Ails You: Cocaine in Victorian Medicine

Nellie Bly Takes the Gold Cure

Sex and the Asylum: Imprisoning Inconvenient Women

Fanny Burney and Her Mastectomy

Sex, Contraception, and Abortion in Medieval England

Bones, Blood, Barbers, and Butchers: Surgeons in the 18th Century

Smallpox vs Edward Jenner: How One Doctor Invented Vaccination and Cured the World

Mediomania: Spiritualism, Crisis, and Mediumistic Hysteria of the 19th Century
