Dr Ian Miller, Lecturer at Ulster University, talks about tea addiction and under-nutrition in Victorian and Edwardian Belfast and why contemporaries linked these problems to the onset of ‘insanity’ in working-class women.

Excessive Tea Drinking and  Insanity in Late-Victorian Belfast

Epidemic Belfast raises difficult and challenging questions about Northern Ireland's medical history, from the 19th century to COVID.  In each episode, experts examine themes including the health of Belfast's mill workers, asylums, Victorian anti-vaxxers, 'cures' and shock therapies for homosexuality, the thalidomide tragedy, lobotomies, prison doctors during the Troubles and the AIDS crisis.

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Epidemic Belfast raises difficult and challenging questions about Northern Ireland's medical history, from the 19th century to COVID. In each episode, experts examine themes including the health of Belfast's mill workers, asylums, Victorian anti-vaxxers, 'cures' and shock therapies for homosexuality, the thalidomide tragedy, lobotomies, prison doctors during the Troubles and the AIDS crisis.

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Excessive Tea Drinking and Insanity in Late-Victorian Belfast

Excessive Tea Drinking and Insanity in Late-Victorian Belfast