Why did it take so long to crack scurvy?
Read Time: 19 min Captain Cook impressed the Royal Society with his successful use of saurkraut to ward off scurvy Image: ‘Oatehite’ by Isaac Robert Cruickshank (1789-1856) Thoughts on a …
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Great Losses of the Great War
Read Time: 4 min During the First World War, the British Officer Class suffered the heaviest losses. Mr John Reynard reminds us of some of their stories.
The Contagious Diseases Acts 1864 and The History of Spermatorrhoea
Read Time: 6 min Comments on two lectures: (1) The Contagious Diseases Acts (2) The History of Spermatorrhoea — the little known ‘Male Hysteria’
History of the Plague
Read Time: 9 min How did the plague come to kill millions of people and is it a thing of the past?
The History of Polio, thoughts on a lecture by Tim Mason PhD
Read Time: 11 min The Polio Story by Portsmouth University, retired lecturer in Medical Microbiology, Tim Mason PhD WSHOM lecture of Nov 24th 2018 One of the great values of …
WSHOMS Nov 10th 2018
Read Time: 7 min 1. Death and Disease at Norman Cross Prison – the health of prisoners-of-war 1797 – 1814
2. The Lady Of The Black Horse – Mabel Stobart 1862 – 1954
WSHOMS OCT 27TH 2018
Read Time: 6 min PART 1: The history and future of Hospital Ships; PART 2: Haslar Royal Naval Hospital, Gosport
WSHOMS Oct 13th 2018
Read Time: 4 min Part 1: Sake Dean Mahomet, Shampooing Surgeon to George IV
Part 2: Fredrick Henry Horatio Akhbar Mohomed, the first to describe essential hypertension
Part 3: Chichester’s John Wickham (1927 – 2017) – The Godfather of Robotic Surgery
Armistice Day lectures WSHOMS Nov 2017
Read Time: 4 min I was unable to attend the first two events in this the 2017 season of West Sussex History of Medicine Society, so forgive me for the …
WSHOMS Nov 5th 2016
Read Time: 6 min 1) How Graylingwell Hospital near Chichester West Sussex served war wounded during WW1 2) Why Malta was known as the ‘Hospital Island’
1. History of Pastic Surgery & 2. Toulouse Lautrec
Read Time: 10 min (1) The incredible history of plastic and cosmetic surgery that was initially mastered in ancient India (2) Toulouse Lautrec and his Muse, Jane Avril
WSHoMSoc 2015 lecture Nov 21st
Read Time: 5 min (1) Dr Albert Carpenter: public health measures in the 19th century (2) The life of Sir Henry Wellcome