Medicine & Disease

The long-awaited christening of Prince Edward was tempered by the plague.

As human populations expand and their exploitation of the globe increases, so does their vulnerability to certain diseases.

The First World War offered new opportunities for enterprising female doctors.

Quarantine is intended to protect, but it can also punish.

A Victorian doctor offering to cure female ‘lunacy’ came under fire for his scandalous new operation: female genital mutilation.

The Plague was not just a medieval illness.

In the stomach, the mind, or the brain – migraine’s causes and remedies have been debated for 2,000 years.

In the 18th century, Europeans in the tropics found themselves beset by an array of unpleasant afflictions. They blamed black women, the climate and the strength of their own masculinity.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, patients were encouraged to snuff, snort and sneeze their way out of a whole range of ailments and illnesses.