Nineteenth-Century British Medicine and Public Health

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Health and Nutrition Victorian attitudes towards Health The Physical Deterioration of the Textile Workers Health & Victorian Criticism Food and Famine in Victorian Literature Come Buy, Come Buy — Food Adulteration and "Goblin Market" What the Poor Ate Contaminated Milk in Victorian Britain Women & Children Death of Children and the Victorian Novel The Working Classes Sanitation and the Environment The Victorian Environment: An Overview How Filthy Was London? Stained Glass and Gaslight — Darkness, Smog, and a Little Light in Victorian Cities Health and Hygiene From Inconvenience to Pollution — Redefining Sewage in The Victorian Age Sanitation and Its absence Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions London Nightmen (cesspool-sewermen) Good Intentions, Unexpected Consequences: Thames Pollution of and The Great Stink of 1858 Poisoned Wallpaper The Navvy and Sanitation Reform Substance abuse Addiction Alcoholism Narcotics

Medicine and medical care Adulteration and contamination of food Punch on the adulteration of food Medical care Medical Developments Nineteenth-Century British Medicine: Suggested Reading Recent Dissertations on Women's History and Health Care Henry Hattemer's Victorian medicine site Medicine and Public Health in Victorian Literature and the Arts Important Individuals in Victorian Medicine Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) Francis Galton 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) Diseases Cholera Influenza Tuberculosis Typhoid Typhus

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