Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates; their novels highlight the fragility of public health today ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. However, the production of better quality ...

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in ...

By the late 19th century, the government was more willing ... During this period, diseases targeted by vaccination programmes included rabies and typhoid.

Comparisons between our current era and the societal rot of the Gilded Age abound. But it might be more useful to explore how ...

Nine-year-old Annie McGuire and seven-year-old Elizabeth Martin were among thousands of women and girls admitted to the Glasgow Lock Hospital for ...