Hundreds of 19th-century skulls collected in the name of medical science tell a story of who mattered and who didn’t
When I started my research on the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection, a librarian leaned over my laptop one day to share ...
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A history of the pharmaceutical industry
it was only in the middle of the 19th century that Beecham became involved in the industrial production of medicine, producing patented medicine from 1842, and the world’s first factory for ...
Leeches are making a medical comeback – here’s why we should celebrate it
Leeches made a medical comeback as “hirudotherapy”, starting in the 1960s and widely used since the 1980s. Researchers have ...
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Medicine in 18th- and 19th-century Britain, c.1700-c.1900 - Edexcel
Medicine in Britain overview - Edexcel Medicine in medieval England, c.1250-c.1500 - Edexcel The medical Renaissance in England, c.1500-c.1700 - Edexcel Medicine in modern Britain, c.1900-present ...
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Naturopathy: A Critical Appraisal
"Naturopathic medicine" is a recent manifestation of the field of naturopathy, a 19th-century health movement espousing "the healing power of nature." "Naturopathic physicians" now claim to be ...
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19th century French psychiatrists: Unsung heroes of modern melancholia research
The text reflects the influential 19th-century psychophysiological model ... that psychiatric diagnoses lag behind other areas of medicine. They viewed their categories as 'provisional symptomatic ...