22 Victorian Medical Horrors That Were Perfectly Legal | Historical Photos

Morphine for teething babies. Saws wiped on an apron. Electricity on a living face. A bed with a lock on the lid. None of it was a crime: it was done by qualified doctors, in respectable hospitals, to people who trusted them. These are 22 real cases from the age of Queen Victoria (London, Paris, Vienna, Philadelphia), told through the photographs, advertisements and engravings that survived. We end with the one doctor who worked out how to stop the dying, and what the others did to him. ⚠ Some historical images are disturbing. Educational and documentary purpose. CHAPTERS 0:00 Nothing here was a crime 01:05 Part 1: The Knife 01:09 Case 1: The Fastest Knife 02:31 Case 2: The Sweet Sleep 03:48 Case 3: The Coat 05:37 Case 4: The Tent 07:07 Case 5: The Lancet 08:26 Part 2: The Bottle 08:31 Case 6: The Soothing Syrup 09:48 Case 7: The Murder Bottle 10:58 Case 8: The Wonder Drugs 12:16 Case 9: The White Powder 13:46 Case 10: The Green Room 15:22 Case 11: Snake Oil 17:04 Part 3: The Asylum 17:09 Case 12: The Wife 18:34 Case 13: The Chair And The Crib 19:59 Case 14: The Star Patient 21:16 Case 15: The Current 22:34 Case 16: The Rest Cure 23:56 Part 4: The Poor 24:00 Case 17: Waterloo Teeth 25:21 Case 18: Phossy Jaw 26:47 Case 19: The Unclaimed 28:13 Case 20: The Elephant Man 29:50 Part 5: The Ones Who Were Right 29:55 Case 21: The Pump 31:46 Case 22: The Hands 34:29 Thanks for watching WHAT YOU WILL SEE Robert Liston's surgery without anaesthetic, chloroform, the surgeons' coat that was never washed, the Civil War field hospital, bloodletting and the lancet, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, the "murder bottle", cocaine and heroin as cough medicine, calomel (mercury), arsenic wallpaper and soap, snake oil, the asylum that locked up Elizabeth Packard, the Utica crib, Charcot's star patient Augustine, Duchenne's electrical experiments, the Rest Cure, Waterloo teeth, phossy jaw, the body snatchers, Joseph Merrick, John Snow's cholera pump and Ignaz Semmelweis. #VictorianMedicine #MedicalHistory #HistoryDocumentary