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[130758] Leeds : Thackray Museum of Medicine - Asthmatic Balsam
Thackray Museum of Medicine, St James' Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds.
Disease Street.
This gallery shows us what life was like for people living on a slum street in Victorian Leeds and how they did their best to look after themselves.
The Quack Cart.
Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam.
During the 19th century, quack “doctors” outnumbered legitimate ones three to one. The reasons people are attracted to quackery remain with us today.
Throughout the 1830s and 1840s cholera, typhoid and typhus fever regularly swept through Leeds. Doctors are expensive so most people rely on home remedies or medicines bought from a quack cart.
Thackray Museum of Medicine.
Follow the story of medicine as you wander through the grimy streets of Victorian Leeds, watch gruesome operations taking place in our 19th-century operating theatre, visit a 70s-style sexual health clinic, chart how well the world responds to crisis, and discover the medical innovations that changed the world.
[130758] Leeds : Thackray Museum of Medicine - Asthmatic Balsam
Thackray Museum of Medicine, St James' Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds.
Disease Street.
This gallery shows us what life was like for people living on a slum street in Victorian Leeds and how they did their best to look after themselves.
The Quack Cart.
Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam.
During the 19th century, quack “doctors” outnumbered legitimate ones three to one. The reasons people are attracted to quackery remain with us today.
Throughout the 1830s and 1840s cholera, typhoid and typhus fever regularly swept through Leeds. Doctors are expensive so most people rely on home remedies or medicines bought from a quack cart.
Thackray Museum of Medicine.
Follow the story of medicine as you wander through the grimy streets of Victorian Leeds, watch gruesome operations taking place in our 19th-century operating theatre, visit a 70s-style sexual health clinic, chart how well the world responds to crisis, and discover the medical innovations that changed the world.