Unusual treatments

In 1865 the Medical Times and Gazette published a series of articles entitled ‘Report on cheap wine’.  There was some

This from the Medical Times and Gazette, published in 1869: From an interesting article on cacao and chocolate, by M. Marchand,

The Annals of Medicine for 1799 contains a letter from a Dr Guthrie, an Scottish physician then working in St

A curious book of remedies was published in London in 1700, entitled Dr. Lower’s, and several other Eminent Physicians, Receipts,

The treatment of venereal disease was one of the main functions of the medical profession from the Middle Ages until

Lupus is an autoimmune disease characterised by a skin rash, joint pain and fatigue.  Although poorly understood even today, it

In 1849 Mrs Charlotte Winslow of Bangor in Maine invented a medicinal product for children which was as successful in

I recently wrote about the horrifying animal remedies which one could buy in a London apothecary’s shop in the seventeenth century.