Madame Tussaud: A Life and a Time

Teresa Ransom

Sutton Publishing (U.K.)

Chloroform: The Quest For Oblivion

<p>Chloroform, discovered in 1831, has had a multitude of roles. This book traces the social, medical & criminal history of the drug, from early medical attempts to create oblivion to chloroform's discovery & resultant use & misuse. Initially viewed with suspicion, chloroform gained immense popularity after it was administered to Queen Victoria during childbirth. However, the price of this anesthesia was many sudden, inexplicable deaths under surgery, which caused years of controversy. On an even more sinister note, chloroform featured in thefts, rapes & murder. Today chloroform is no longer used as an anesthetic, but has a multitude of uses in industry & medical research, including a role in DNA. It is also a by-product of the chlorination of water. Illus.</p>

Chloroform: The Quest for Oblivion

Linda Stratmann

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Sweeping from Asia into Europe, where its more appalling by-products included the Flagellants and the first great Jewish pogroms, the plague reached England in 1348. This account traces the course of the plague through Europe of the Church and the broader social and economic repercussions, as well as a reconstruction of life in a medieval English village suddenly overtaken by plague.

Black Death

Philip Ziegler

From a social context and using contemporary sources, this text explains how the medical profession (physicians, surgeons and apothecaries) developed and functioned in late medieval England. Against a backdrop of high morality, widespread disease and persistent problems of public health, it considers what alternatives were available to the patient, from "society doctors" to wise women, quacks and hospitals for the sick poor. Medical theories and practices of the time are investigated, along with the often satirical and sometimes hostile attitudes of the man on the street.

Medicine and Society in Later Medieval England

Carole Rawcliffe

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