This talk explores how and why the casualty department was transformed over the course of the 20th century, going from a chaotic, under-staffed and un...

The 1890s were a critical decade in the novel science of immunology. Emerging developments in bacteriology and tropical medicine revealed numerous mic...

During the last 100 years, the treatment of diabetes mellitus in Britain underwent radical transformation. One of the most striking features of twenti...

Andreas Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica (1543) is a landmark publication in the history of medicine, well known for its illustrations. Yet, the a...

After WWII, British doctors and politicians thought that they could import the perfect solution for dental illness: drinking water fluoridation. But t...

In the 1600s Peter Sartorius, a citizen and surgeon of Strasbourg, compared syphilis to ‘an angry dog’, which viciously threatened communities. These ...

In this talk Dr Allan Beveridge discusses the nineteenth centry Scottish pioneer of psychiatric medicine Sir Alexander Morison and the collection of i...

The place of the public within public health is a critical issue for contemporary public health in Britain. Whether it involves appealing to individua...

William Orpen (1878-1931) produced numerous pictures of doctors and artists. Orpen suggests that in medical diagnostics, as in the production and eval...

The military success of a fighting force depends in large part on the availability of fit, healthy troops, but the austere conditions of war often con...