17K views · 308 reactions | Are your humours balanced? Do you need a hole in the head? Medieval medicine might look pretty unconventional by today’s standards, but for all its strangeness it wasn’t always as mad as it’s often made out to be... | English Heritage | Facebook

78K views · 1.7K reactions | “Medical treatments were still pretty medieval. It was a high-risk combination of chance and quackery...” Watch the full video  https://youtu.be/JuL7uMM-A_E Alice Loxton dives deep into London’s grisly past. She goes under the knife and takes a forensic look at the horrors of Victorian medicine. And where better to do so than the Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret - one of London’s hidden gems. | History Hit | Facebook