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Improving public health in the late 19th century
However, others lagged behind. The late 19th century had seen great strides in public health provision and hygiene. However, there was still a lot of ill health. In 1900, average life expectancy ...
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Government interventions in healthcare during the 19th and 20th centuries
During the 19th century, the idea that the individual was responsible for their own health was widely accepted. Under this approach, politicians believed that the state only had limited ...
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A history of the pharmaceutical industry
A trained pharmaceutical chemist, Lilly was an archetype of the dynamic and multi-talented 19th century American industrialist ... After the war, the arrival of social healthcare systems such ...
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The Daring 19th-Century Reformers Who Sought to End Prostitution by Offering Financial and Emotional Support to Urban Sex Workers
Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...
The Conversation9d
From hempseed gruel to CBD: the curious history of cannabis as a health product
The regulatory gaps and health concerns of today reflect those of the 19th century when cannabis products were commercialised by the food industry. In the 1830s, William Brooke O’Shaughnessy ...
A disease that killed millions in the 19th Century is growing again in Wales
According to the latest Tuberculosis in Wales Annual Report, released on World TB Day on Monday (March 24), there were 95 ...
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The 19th Amendment was a key step for women's rights in the U.S.
Though local suffrage slowly opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force-fed ...