Historians of medicine often talk about the ‘medical marketplace’ in the 18th and 19th centuries, as we have ourselves many times in our work. Generally,

of Altrincham Workhouse and the Sick Poor English Butcher, ca.1875 On 15 June 1887, James G. Hutchinson, the Coroner for Bradford in West Yorkshire, recorded

Breughel’s depiction of a much earlier ‘Dancing Plague’ in Strasbourg, 1518 William Falconer (1744-1824), physician at Bath General Hospital, recalled seeing what he described as

On November the 1st, 1888, an intriguing headline on page 11 of The Shrewsbury Chronicle read: LIKE THE VISIT OF A SECOND CHRIST It was

CONTENT WARNING: the following contains descriptions of historic abortion that some readers may find upsetting It is now two years since the United States Supreme

On 20 November 1902 a child was born at Wreyland, in Devon, suffering from a rupture (the term has several meanings but likely a hernia