Edwardian medicine

The 19th century paved the way for many of the modern medical practices that continue to benefit us today…

Victorian / edwardian antique syringe in original case

Antique 1897 weiss of london silver and brass syringe upon a vintage medical book

Antique medical book full of amazing color plates, diagrams, and drawings. Going in the classic shop soon.

A selection of images from High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1910) by champion of electro-therapeutics Samuel Howard Monell, a physician who the American X-Ray Journal cite, rather wonderfully, as having “done more for static electricity than any other living man”. Although the use of electricity to treat physical ailments could be seen to stretch back to the when the ancient Greeks first used live electric fish to numb the body in pain, it wasn’t until the 18th and…

This exhibit from the National Library of Medicine presents a selection of historic postcards that span a century of nursing imagery and investigates the hold these images exert on the public imagination—then and now.

THE DOCTOR'S BAG the blog about 19th century Medicine and Surgery Keith Souter aka Clay More Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) bites are common in western novels and movies. The treatment of them always involved pulling out a knife, cutting a cross over the bite, then sucking out the poison and spitting it away. The knife blade would then be heated to red heat and used to cauterize the wound. The bitten person would then develop a fever and probably rave deliriously throughout the night beside…

Medical students at the dissection table in Anatomy lab. Medical College of Virginia, class of 1903 VCU Tompkins-McCaw Library 82/Jan/1

medicalschool: Photograph of the operating theatre at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1900.