What would happen if you became ill or injured in the nineteenth century?
This session takes students inside the changing world of Victorian medicine, from bloodletting and patent remedies to anaesthesia, antisepsis and the beginnings of modern surgery.
Along the way, it examines which treatments might have helped, which could have caused harm, and why apparently strange medical practices often made sense within the knowledge available at the time.
Speaker
Dr Dylan Jones
Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences (Haematology / Human Physiology)