author
George Vivian Poore
1843–1904
A Victorian physician and popular medical writer, he helped bring public health ideas to a wider audience through clear, practical books and lectures. His work linked everyday life—homes, food, sanitation, and exercise—to better health.
2 Audiobooks
London (Ancient and Modern) from the Sanitary and Medical Point of View
by George Vivian Poore
The Dwelling House
by George Vivian Poore
About the author
Born in Andover in 1843, George Vivian Poore trained in medicine in London and qualified in 1866. Early in his career he served as surgeon on the Great Eastern during a transatlantic cable-laying voyage, and he later became closely associated with University College Hospital, where he worked as a physician and teacher.
Poore became well known as an authority on sanitation and preventive medicine. He wrote on subjects such as domestic hygiene, food, water, exercise, and the design of healthy houses, presenting medical and public-health questions in a way general readers could follow. He also delivered the Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians in 1899.
He died in 1904. Remembered as both a physician and a writer, Poore belonged to a period when medicine was increasingly concerned not only with treating disease, but with the conditions of daily life that helped cause or prevent it.