Medicine and Medical Care
- Pasteur and Lister: A Chronicle of Scientific Influence
- Joseph Lister, James Syme, and Victorian Medical Education
- Bacteriology and the Rise of the Germ Theory of Disease
- Medical Care
- Medical Developments
- Victorian Hospitals
- Recent Dissertations on Women's History and Health Care
- Medicine and Public Health in Victorian Literature and the Arts
- Nineteenth-Century British Medicine: Suggested Reading
Medical Technology
Dentistry
- Institutional Dental Instruction before 1810
- The Need for Dentistry: A Victorian Newspaper Column about the Toothache
- Felix Weiss, Vernon Galbray, and the Professionalization of Victorian Dentistry
Pharmacology
- Escharotic Medicine, 1805-1889
- The Discovery & Early Use of Zinc Chloride in Medicine
- Zinc Chloride Enters the British Dispensary
- William Burnett, Zinc Chloride, & the Principle of Disinfection
- Zinc Chloride & Public Health
- Jesse Weldon Fell, M.D., Zinc Chloride, Bloodwort, & Furtive Medicine
- Dr. Fell's Investigation Under Scrutiny
- The Trial & Reinventions of Dr. John Pattison
- Dr. John Pattison's Caustic Temperament
- Campbell De Morgan, M.D. & the Mixed Mode of Operation
- Pharmacy symbols
Medical Ethics
- Anna Kingsford, Anti-Vivisectionist
- Mona Caird, "Is Torture for a Good End Justifiable?," The Ethics of Vivisection (1900)
Important Individuals in Victorian Medicine
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917)
- Francis Galton
- Joseph Hodgson
- Joseph Lister (the elder), who perfected the microsope, discovering shape of blood corpuscles
- Joseph Lord Lister (1827-1912) and Antiseptic Surgery
- Florence Nightingale and Nursing
- Mary Seacole
- John Snow and waterborne disease
- Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870)
- Henry Wentworth Acland (1815-1900)
Related Material
- Public Health (sitemap)
- Victorian attitudes towards Health
- The Victorian Environment (sitemap)
- Addiction (sitemap)
- Diseases (sitemap)
Book Reviews
- Bad Medicine: A Review of Doctoring the Novel: Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle (2012)
- Purity and Danger in Malvern: A Review of Pauline Conolly's The Water Doctor's Daughters
- "Language Is Our Rubicon": A Review of Jennifer Esmail's Reading Victorian Deafness
- A Review of Sandhya Shetty's Imperial Pharmakon: Writing and Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century (2025)
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