Doctors and ‘Educational Overpressure’ in Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Fatigue State that Divided Medical Opinion

Epidemics and Infections in Nineteenth-Century Britain

We would like to thank Graham Mooney and Andrew Noymer and Beth Jarosz for their responses to our ‘Second Opinion’ on ‘Infectious Disease and the Epidemiological Transition in Victorian Britain’. Mooney offers a robust attack on our general claim that the importance of infectious diseases as a cause of death in the nineteenth century has been overstated, while seeming to accept what we say abou...

A geography of nineteenth-century Britain

Mortality in mid nineteenth century Britain

RICHARD CAVENDISH, The powers of evil in western religion, magic and folk belief, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975, 8vo, pp. ix, 299, £5.95. Evil supernatural agencies are part of every culture in degrees varying with their sophistication. As is to be expected, primitive man is surrounded by them, but they are of course still believed in by races who boast advanced social and cultural devel...

Great Doctors of the Nineteenth Century

English literature is by no means rich in medical biographies and any worthy additions to the historical shelves of our libraries are very welcome indeed. These seventeen essays on distinguished doctors of the last century are important from an historical point of view, and they also form very good reading matter. The biographies are peculiarly satisfying, but it is hard to say what is the part...

A science of impurity: water analysis in nineteenth century Britain

The following notes are not intended to detract from this very useful piece of work. Omissions include the headless statue of Alexander, a (fourth-century?) doctor from Ephesus (Jahrbuch des osterreichischen archdologischen Instituts, 1959, 44: Beiblatt, pp. 352, 363). The mosaics of Cosmas and Damian from Hagios Georgios, Thessalonica (fifth-century), and from SS Cosma e Damiano, Rome (sixth-c...