Medicine & Disease

Cures and treatments have always offered potential riches to their inventors. But how was one supposed to know what worked and what didn’t? 

The global crisis wrought by the First World War prompted the birth of free mental health care.

The long-awaited christening of Prince Edward was tempered by the plague.

As human populations expand and their exploitation of the globe increases, so does their vulnerability to certain diseases.

The First World War offered new opportunities for enterprising female doctors.

Quarantine is intended to protect, but it can also punish.

A Victorian doctor offering to cure female ‘lunacy’ came under fire for his scandalous new operation: female genital mutilation.

The Plague was not just a medieval illness.

In the stomach, the mind, or the brain – migraine’s causes and remedies have been debated for 2,000 years.