Doctor bleeding a patient

Medicine and health

Clothes infected by the Black Death are burned in medieval Europe, c1340. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Black Death facts: your guide to "the worst catastrophe in recorded history"

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Why Florence Nightingale was so much more than the ‘Lady with the Lamp’. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Florence Nightingale

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The life and legend of Florence Nightingale. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The effects of the disease known as the Black Death

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History quiz: how much do you know about the Black Death?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dance of Death, printed by Jacob Meydenbach, Germany 1492. (Photo by Alamy)

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The Black Death and social change. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photograph of John Snow in 1856

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The Broad Street cholera outbreak: how bad was it and how was it contained?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Florence Nightingale

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Nursing by numbers: how Florence Nightingale campaigned for better conditions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

c1656: A plague doctor in protective clothing. The beak mask held spices thought to purify air, while the wand was used to avoid touching patients. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Q&AWhy did 17th-century plague doctors wear peculiar beaked masks?

The effects of the disease known as the Black Death

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Black Death quarantine: how did we try to contain the most deadly disease in history?

Henry VIII

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Q&AWhat was the Sweating Sickness? And how did Henry VIII ‘self-isolate’?

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet

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Jane Austen’s tips for “health and happiness”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of flu patients during the First World War

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Q&AWhy was the 1918-19 pandemic known as Spanish Flu?

Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

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Coronavirus: a historical perspective. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A short history of quarantine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wartime evacuees wash their hands

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“The very sight of her hands did almost turn my stomach”: a brief history of hand-washing. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The (not so) stinky Middle Ages: why medieval people were cleaner than we think

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Medieval medicine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A medieval monk praying in front of a table of apothacary's herbs

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Beating the Black Death: did medieval medicine help people to survive?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Midwives and babies in the sun

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Midwifery and childbirth: a historical A–Z guide. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

On 20 July 1969, Lunar Module 'Eagle' touched down gently on the Sea of Tranquility on the moon. (Photo by NASA/Newsmakers via Getty Images)

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From ‘moon-germs’ to motion sickness: health and safety on NASA’s 1969 lunar landing mission. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

US soldiers in Vietnam

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From the Napoleonic Wars to Vietnam and Iraq: a history of war trauma. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval trepanning

General prehistory

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The ancient Greek physician Dioscorides

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Happy plants and laughing weeds: how people of the ancient world used – and abused – drugs

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After her recovery from smallpox, Queen Elizabeth I started using a ceruse foundation on her face, neck and chest. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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5 weird habits of royals through history

An illustration from 1883 shows the phrenology chart of the skull

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An ancient Roman relief shows a midwife delivering a baby. Many midwives had other occupations, and undertook the task as a contribution to their community. (Wellcome Images)

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Lady Sybil Grey, an indomitable Englishwoman who, as a nurse in Russia, led a field hospital and had a grandstand view of the February 1917 revolution that toppled the tsar. (Illustration by Sue Gent for BBC History Magazine)

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Paul Morland. (Photo by Frank Monks)

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The First World War promoted advances in medicine, and in sectors such as aviation, that had not just military but also peacetime benefits, says David Stevenson. Here Captain Francis Derwent Wood treats the face of a patient, creating a mask which matches as closely as possible to the man's faces before he was injured, c1916. (Photo by Horace Nicholls/ IWM via Getty Images)

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