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The poor child’s nurse
| Briony Hudson
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
| Cal Flyn
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
| Cal Flyn
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.