Gout Gets Even
The notorious malady of the 18th century is on the increase in the UK.
Medicine & Disease
Bart’s Hospital
St Bartholomew’s was refounded in the reign of Henry VIII. Courtney Dainton describes how, for nearly two centuries, it was one of only two major hospitals in England for the care of the general sick.
Religion Among the American Indians
Louis C. Kleber describes how, for the American Indians, ‘medicine’ was a spiritual belief as well as a curative.
Medieval Hospitals of England
In England, medieval hospitals flourished until the beginning of the 15th century, funded by taxes, tolls, and wealthy doners.
London Life in the 1790s
Frances Austin reads the lively late eighteenth century letters of a great surgeon’s apprentice to his family in Cornwall.
Roger Bacon: Doctor Mirabilis
J.J.N. McGurk profiles Roger Bacon; a 13-century Franciscan, with a reputation as a necromancer, who showed a remarkable combination at Oxford and in Paris of philosophic and scientific gifts.
Age in Old England
The problems of later life are always with us, writes Steven R. Smith. Among those who have studied them are both a famous philosopher and a renowned physician.
The Founding of the Red Cross Movement
The great humanitarian organisation was founded on 29 October 1863.
A National Health Service: Early Modern Medicine
Medicine in early modern Britain is commonly perceived as crude and ineffective. But for all its shortcomings, says Alun Withey, there was no shortage of medical practitioners.
The Plague of London, 1665
Stephen Usherwood describes how an Asiatic flea, living as a parasite upon black rats, caused as many as 100,000 deaths during the summer and autumn of 1665.