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Spotlight On: The History of Medicine
A selection of articles from the pages of History Review and History Today on the history of medicine and medical practice.
 Elizabeth A. Fenn examines a little known catastrophe that reshaped the history of a continent. |
 Roy Porter charts the whirlwind of medical triumphs that promised limitless progress in human health and our more sober reflections on the eve of the third millennium. |
 Sarah Pepper investigates a medical pioneer whose name survives today on a bread wrapper, but whose sweeping system of wholefoods and natural prescriptions offended the medical establishment of late Victorian England. |
 Roy Porter looks into medicine in Georgian England where sufferers from the 'Glimmering of the Gizzard' the 'Quavering of the Kidneys' and the 'Wambling Trot' could chose their cures from a cornucopia of remedies and nostrums doled out by an army of practitioners amongst whom flourished the quacks. |
 Andrew Mendelsohn outlines the attractions of a fast-growing an popular field of study. |
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The former editor of History Review,Robert Pearce gives his personal view. |
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Drawing on classroom experience, Viv Sanders offers advice and seeks answers. |
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