In this blog post, Tizzano illustrates how Dr. Foster and others of his time ... Over the course of the second half of the nineteenth century, the requisites for the advancement of surgery ...

Late 19th century engraving of a doctor treating a young child. In 1911, the Liberal Government introduced the concept of National Insurance to help with the cost of healthcare. If a worker took ...

The book, "Des Destinees de L'ame" or "Destinies of the Soul", was bound in the 19th century by Dr. Ludovic Bouland without the patient's permission. After the patient passed away, Dr. Bouland ...

For those physicians that did try the operation, outcomes were generally not promising—until the end of the nineteenth century a patient under-going a caesarean section faced almost certain death.