Health

The “Cholera”-

The “cholera” is a disease that which caused a lot of death in the 19th century.
The symptoms of the disease are a large amounts of watery diarrhea that lasts a few days, vomiting and muscel cramps.
The colera is reccurent and a lotb of people thought that he caused by a bad smell but they were wrong,
however was a one man that knew the “Cholera” is a water-born disease and this man was Dr. John Snow/

John Snow (15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858) was an English physician and a leader in the adoption of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. He is considered one of the fathers of modern epidemiology, in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in Soho, London, in 1854.

Eventually, he succeeded to convince the people that is a real water-born disease.

Mental illness

treatment for mental illnes or nervous disorders had changed litttle since medieval times.

Those sufferers lower down the social scale were locked up in County asylums.

Private `madhouses` were often profitable institutions.

Women might be locked away there by their husbands if he disapproved of her behaviour.

Such dramatic stories were the ubjects of popular fiction such as the Women in white by Wilkie Collins.

Contraception and childbirth

victorian women might be almost continually pregnant, between marriage and menopause.

Coitusinterruptus remained the principal method of family limitation.

Childbirth was risky and painful.

There was a wide belief that labour pain were imposed by God because Eve had sinnerd in the Garden of Eden.

It took Dr Snow the same man who discovered the soucrce of cholera to alleviate labour pains by administering chloroform.

When Queen Victoria and the daughter of the Archbishop of Canterbury used it, anaesthesia had become respectable.