Thursday, March 24, 2016

Victorian Doctors Thought Reading Caused “Incurable Insanity”, Uterine Disease

As History Buff informed us on Tuesday, Victorian-era doctors were convinced that reading novels could lead to incurable insanity in women, but that's not the only ridiculous medical claim made in that era about the dangers of reading. That HB piece happened to mention that John Harvey Kellogg, the...

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