Forget the gentle Lady with the Lamp. Florence Nightingale was a statistician, political operator and relentless reformer who used evidence to expose preventable deaths and force the British establishment to change.
Tag: medical history
The Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits
In 1726, Mary Toft became one of the most notorious women in England after apparently giving birth to rabbits. Doctors investigated, royal physicians became involved and London was transfixed. But behind one of history’s most infamous medical hoaxes lies a stranger story of pregnancy, belief, deception and a young woman whose role may have been far more complicated than the legend suggests.
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The Terrible Tale of Burke and Hare
Pour the last of the Christmas Bailey’s and pull up a cushion and I’ll tell you the tale of Edinburgh’s most famous resurrection men…
