In the Victorian era, doctors lacked modern medical knowledge and hospitals, resulting in many deaths from disease. Treatment methods were crude, relying on practices like bloodletting with leeches, induced vomiting, herbal remedies, and prayers. Major plagues like the Black Death took many lives due to the lack of understanding of germ theory and antibiotics. By the late Victorian era, some medical advances were made with the invention of the hypodermic needle and identification of cholera bacteria, but doctors still had limited effectiveness compared to modern times.

1. BY:Sandy Kupfer
DOCTOR’S PROFESSION IN THE
VICTORIAN ERA

2. • In the 1800’s they lacked hospitals and
there for lots of people died.
• The utensils were not good

3. • Prayers were used
• Leaches were used for blood.
• Vomiting and laxatives were used
• They also used herbs

4. The V.E. plague
• It was called the black death for lumps
came in peoples bodies the color of black.
• Many people died during the “Black Death”

5. The remedies
• bleeding, plastering, purging, sweating,
and blistering were usually what patients
had to do.

6. • Rabies vaccination invented 1885

7. • Discovery of cholera bacillus in 1883

8. • The hypodermic syringe invented 1853

9. THE END
• As you are probably thinking the doctors
now would be like gods to the Victorian
Era doctors.
• This is a hospital