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Medics and the bomb

Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.

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Medics, migration and the NHS

In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.

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The rise and fall of a medical mesmerist

Uncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.

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The colonist who faced the blue terror

India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.

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  • [Leaflet advertising the British Red Cross Society (Purley Branch)'s Medical Loan Depot hiring "all types of nursing equipment" from invalid chairs to bronchitis kettles].
  • [Leaflet advertising the British Red Cross Society (Purley Branch)'s Medical Loan Depot hiring "all types of nursing equipment" from invalid chairs to bronchitis kettles].
  • [3 fund raising stickers for the British Red Cross Society Scottish Branch featuring the arms of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Highland Light Infantry and the Royal Scots Fusiliers].
  • [3 fund raising stickers for the British Red Cross Society Scottish Branch featuring the arms of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Highland Light Infantry and the Royal Scots Fusiliers].
  • [3 fund raising stickers for the British Red Cross Society Scottish Branch featuring the arms of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Highland Light Infantry and the Royal Scots Fusiliers].
  • British medical societies / edited by Sir D'Arcy Power.
  • Incipit tractatus de virtutibus herbarum.
  • Incipit tractatus de virtutibus herbarum.
  • Incipit tractatus de virtutibus herbarum.
  • Incipit tractatus de virtutibus herbarum.
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