Typhoid epidemic in Aberdeen, Scotland traced to contaminated corned beef from Argentina.
Chevalier Taylor
Redirected to John Taylor (oculist)
Crazy Sally Mapp
Redirected to Sarah Mapp.
Doctrine of signatures
Observation that the form of a medicinal plant in some way resembles the organ or disease it can be used to treat.
John Taylor (oculist)
Early 18th-century English eye surgeon and medical charlatan.
King’s Evil
Name given in medieval times to scrofula, a swelling of the lymph nodes in the neck caused by tuberculosis.
Miliary fever
Outdated medical term for any infection characterised by a seed-like rash.
Organotherapy
Technique that makes use of extracts derived from animal or human tissues to treat medical conditions.
Resurrectionists
Those who exhumed the bodies of the recently deceased during the 18th and 19th centuries to provide cadavers to anatomists for their research.
Sarah Mapp
18th-century bone-setter, nicknamed Crazy Sally.