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[My Guest Post] The Window Operation: Hope Through Surgery This fall, REMEDIA a collaborative blog on the history of medicine, launched a special series exploring the histories of surgery.
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[My Guest Post] The Window Operation: Hope Through Surgery This fall, REMEDIA a collaborative blog on the history of medicine, launched a special series exploring the histories of surgery.
Actina: A Wonder of the 19th Century
The history of the Actina, an “electric pocket battery” claimed to cure eye and ear diseases, rightly began in a manufacturing factory in Bristol, England. There, William C. Wilson, born in 1837 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, started a company in the 1870s selling “galvano-magnetic clothing.” After working as an apprentice cabinet maker and an auctioneer in London, Wilson recognized that the future…
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