Let's Look At the Gruesome World of Victorian Medicine

NOTE: Thanks to everyone who pointed out that Ibn Sina was Persian, not Arab. Sorry for the mixup!
Come join me for a tour through the Victorian era’s cities and hospitals, and meet one of the most famous and eccentric surgeons of the era. How bad was the medical situation, really? Come learn with me!

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Sources:
John Snow and the Broad Street Pump By Kathleen Tuthill, UCLA https://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/snowcricketarticle.html

The Butchering Art by Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris

Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain By Alison Winter

Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery By Richard Hollingham

Practical Surgery With One Hundred and Twenty Engravings on Wood By Robert Liston

Lectures on the Operations of Surgery And on Diseases and Accidents Requiring Operations By Robert Liston

Elements of Surgery By Robert Liston

Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England By Mary Wilson Carpenter

Time me, gentlemen! The bravado and bravery of Robert Liston by Andrew J. Jones, BS, BA, Robert R. Nesbit, Jr., MD, FACS, Steven B. Holsten, Jr., MD, FACS
https://www.facs.org/~/media/files/archives/shg%20poster/2016/05_liston.ash
The Gory New York City Riot that Shaped American Medicine by Bess Lovejoy https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gory-new-york-city-riot-shaped-american-medicine-180951766/


The Struggle and Triumph of America’s First Black Doctors by Karen Jordan https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/12/black-doctors/510017/


A Brief History of Women Doctors in the British Empire by Jessica KIrwan https://medicalhealthhumanities.com/2017/12/17/a-brief-history-on-women-doctors-in-the-british-empire/


Dr. Mutter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine By Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz

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