Doctor bleeding a patient

Medicine and health

A 14th-century illustration of a farmer leading a pack animal through the ice and snow

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The surprisingly modern Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorian

Q&AWhat is gaol fever and how was it caused and spread?

A mother receives her newborn baby in a c1490 text written for Henry VII. Childbirth in the Middle Ages exposed both mother and child to great peril but, writes Elma Brenner, midwives had the expertise to intervene when complications arose. (Photo by Bridgeman)

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The medieval childbirth guide: 6 tips for pregnant mothers in the Middle Ages

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Giving birth in the 17th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Gulielma Lister: the female botanist who became the queen of slime moulds. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An allegorical depiction of the plague in ancient Rome, an angel batters down a door while people lie sick on the ground

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The reign of Roman disease: why did disease hit a flourishing empire?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Plagues of our past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German doctor Otto Warburg at work in his laboratory

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Otto Warburg: the Jewish doctor and the Nazi war on cancer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An image of Hippocrates from the 14th century, sitting and holding a book open in front of him

Ancient Greece

Hippocrates and humours: medicine in ancient Greece

From transfusions of lambs’ blood to tooth replacements, Paul Craddock chronicles the strange history of transplant surgery

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Transplant surgery: an eye-opening history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 'teacher' in Milgram's study is instructed to administer an electric shock to a 'learner'.

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Experiments in evil: the shocking efforts to understand the atrocities of the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration showing the traders who made a fortune during the wake of the Black Death

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Merchants of doom: the traders who profited from the Black Death. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Emma Dabiri“Anarcha Westcott should be hailed as a ‘mother of gynaecology’”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A medieval illustration showing a doctor bleeding a patient

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QuizCan you spot the real historical remedies?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Joep de Beer of Holland throws a javelin at the Stoke Mandeville Games

20th Century

Q&AWhen and where were the first Paralympics held?

Georgian

Mary Wortley Montagu: the scourge of smallpox

A group of men observe a body lying on a table.

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Early-modern cannibal doctors: why mummified corpse was considered medicine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Why were the Georgians fixated with fatness?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Elinor CleghornThe History of Unwell Women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fern Riddell

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Contraception, consent & erotic connection: sex through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Healthcare before the NHS. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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From hysteria to wandering wombs: women and medicine through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Joseph Bazalgette, a civil engineer who planned a groundbreaking new drainage system to serve London

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Joseph Bazalgette: how the man who transformed London paved the way for your loo

Pregnant woman before giving birth in the 13th century

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16 things you (probably) didn't know about the rituals behind royal births, from the medieval era to the present day

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"Make love not midnight snacks": a social history of slimming clubs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Bloodied feet, outrageous breasts and the sinister power of a hair cut: a history of the body. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Triumphant Death chases Londoners from their city

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How 17th-century London reacted to the Great Plague. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second century relief portraying a Roman ophthalmologist examining a patient. (Photo By DEA / A. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images)

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Roman medicine: 6 ways people stayed healthy in ancient Rome. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A set of dentures belonging to George Washington. The first US president wore fake teeth for much of his life

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Q&ADid George Washington have wooden teeth?

A Red Cross worker in the United States, 1918

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Spanish flu: the virus that changed the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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