Education Archives - British Society for the History of Medicine https://bshm.org.uk/category/education/ Wed, 13 May 2026 10:50:43 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Hidden Nurse Dictionary https://bshm.org.uk/the-hidden-nurse-dictionary/ https://bshm.org.uk/the-hidden-nurse-dictionary/#respond Wed, 13 May 2026 10:50:43 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=21250 The Lancaster Health and Medical Museum Collection, an affiliated society of BSHM, publishes a short article each month about one of the treasured objects in their collection. Bryan Rhodes describes how one of these objects revealed a hidden book by a remarkable author. This week marks International Nurses’ Day, and this blog celebrates an interesting […]

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]]> https://bshm.org.uk/the-hidden-nurse-dictionary/feed/ 0 An unflattering view of English medical education in the 1840s https://bshm.org.uk/an-unflattering-view-of-english-medical-education-in-the-1840s/ https://bshm.org.uk/an-unflattering-view-of-english-medical-education-in-the-1840s/#respond Tue, 12 Mar 2024 11:05:23 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=18109 In about 1841, Belgian doctor Constantin Pierre Crommelinck toured various psychiatric institutions in England, France, and Germany. His report reviewed not just various English asylums and also the training of English doctors. Peter Carpenter recounts his none too flattering findings.   Constantin Pierre Crommelinck (1814-1884) was the son of a Belgium surgeon who trained as […]

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