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Victorian Health and Medicine

While some of the "tips" you'll find in the articles below may be useful, we do not recommend that you look here for actual medical advice! These articles are provided for their historical perspective only, and are not suggested as treatments.

Girls' Own Paper - 1880 (Vol. 1)
The Health Advice of Medicus*
Topics include: How Can I Look My Best? · Health and Beauty for the Hair · Lissom Hands and Pretty Feet · Bright Eyes and Teeth Like Pearl · The Care of the Voice · Baths at Home and Baths by the Sea · On Nursing the Sick

Girls' Own Paper - 1880-1881 (Vol. 2)
How to Wash and Dress the Baby, by Ruth Lamb
The Health Advice of Medicus*
Topics include: Chilblains · How to be Healthy, Happy and Beautiful · Comedones · Useful Hints on Surgery · A Word with the Nervous · The Toilet Table · Summer Drinks · Herbs · Making the Best of a Holiday · Eyes and Eyesight


Girls' Own Paper - 1881-1882
The Health Advice of Medicus*
Topics include: A Seasonable Word to the Wise · The Mind and the Health · Maxims for the New Year · The Girl's Own Room · How to Be Healthy in Springtime · On the Benefits of Pure Water (with a diagram for making a water filter) · A Few Facts About Food and Digestion · A Few Words About Colds and Coughs · On the Virtues of Simple Herbs and Flowers · Tic-Douloureux and Toothache: Prevention and Cure.

Girls' Own Paper - 1882-1883
The Health Advice of Medicus*
Topics include: Tea in Health and Sickness · How to Nurse and Tend the Aged · Medicines: When to Take and When to Avoid · Exercise, and How to Benefit By It · Early to Bed and Early to Rise · A Plea for Vegetables v. Drugs · Pure Air: What It Can Do · What a House Ought to Be to Be Healthy · Sleep · The Secret of Home Happiness and Wealth · In the Fall of the Year
Domestic Poisons: Their Detection and Antidotes, by An Analyst

Girls' Own Paper - 1886-1887
The Health Advice of Medicus
Are We Leading Natural Lives? · Health in the Kitchen Garden · Healthy Lives for Working Girls · Hope as a Tonic for Body and Mind · I Only Wish I Had · Sleep, Gentle Sleep · Spring: Its Troubles and Dangers · The Weather and Health.

Girls' Own Paper - 1888-1889
The Health Advice of Medicus
It's Strange, but It's True · Remove the Cause · What Summer May Do for the Invalid · Before and Behind the Counter
The Mary Wardell Convalescent Home for Scarlet Fever, by Anna Beale

*Medicus is the pseudonym of Gordon Stables, a doctor and also a naturalist who contributed many of the nature pieces on this site.



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