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The Victorian Era is marked by great scientists and thinkers and their legendary inventions. The Industrial Revolution led to the expansion of the railways to wider areas thus connecting even the remotest areas to cities. It led the engineering field to a great leap forward. The spinning wheel became outdated, new factories were set up at breakneck speed; people migrated to cities by large numbers. A new aristocracy class in the society was created - the industrialists.

The progress in science also resulted in significant development in medicine during the heydays of the Victorian era. Several new, specialized hospitals were established. These hospitals began to employ advanced surgical treatments due to pioneering breakthroughs in anaesthetics and antiseptics. The beginning of the Victorian Era was a time of population growth coupled with primitive medicine and of obsolete science. By the end, comparatively advanced scientific theories had been confirmed; treatment had been improved through the introduction of antiseptic and anesthetic; and the life span of the average human had been increased. The multitude of professions in medicine grew, from the prestigious physician to the lowly apothecary. Medical treatment, though very primitive in nature, vastly improved during the Victorian era.

Folk remedies, and early medicine, important surgical breakthroughs, along with scientific advances and discoveries; all were in our grasp in the early 1800's, but there were also quacks and charlatans and those who believed what they practiced, but the theories fell far short by any medical standard. Victorian medicine is a study in both life and death.

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Title	Author	Date	Publisher	Condition	Price $US
First American Edition 5 plates plus 20 woodcut illustrations Origins of Civilization and Primitive Condition of Man	Sir John Lubbock	1873	D Appleton and Co New York	Near Fine	$53.75
Young Earth Creationist Discussion First Edition Leather Bound 32 Full Page Plates Science and the Bible	Herbert W Morris	1871	Ziegler and McCurdy	Good	$74.87
Rebound in Period Leather 2 Volume Set A Treatise on The Practice of Medicine	John Eberle	1845	Grigg and Eliott Philadelphia	Good	$285.98
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