author
Francis Cornelius Webb
1826–1873
A Victorian doctor with a strong interest in the history of disease and public health, he wrote clear, practical works on epidemics and medical history. His books reflect a period when medicine was rapidly changing and writers like him helped bring specialist knowledge to a wider readership.
1 Audiobook
The Sweating Sickness in England
by Francis Cornelius Webb
About the author
Francis Cornelius Webb was an English physician and medical writer, born in 1826 and died in 1873. Sources consistently describe him as a doctor who also wrote extensively on medical subjects, especially epidemics, public health, and the history of disease.
He was educated in London and trained in medicine in the mid-19th century, building a career that combined practice, scholarship, and editorial work. His writing is closely linked with subjects that mattered deeply in Victorian Britain, including outbreaks of infectious illness and the growing effort to understand them through historical records as well as current medical knowledge.
Webb is remembered less as a literary celebrity than as a careful specialist writer whose books helped document how earlier generations faced epidemic disease. No suitable verified portrait image was found on the sources reviewed, so a profile image is not included here.