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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.

The Great Smallpox Epidemic Elizabeth A. Fenn examines a little known catastrophe that reshaped the history of a continent.	Why Study the History of Science, Medicine and Technology? Andrew Mendelsohn outlines the attractions of a fast-growing an popular field of study.
The Rise and Fall of the Age of Miracles 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.	Allinson's Staff of Life - Health Without Medicine in the 1890s 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.
Before the Fringe: Quack Medicine in Georgian 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.