Stories
- Article
Beating the bodysnatchers
When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.
- Article
Between sickness and health
In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
- Audio
The history of legal medicine in Britain and Europe.
Date: 9-11 April, 1987- Archives and manuscripts
Society of Medical Officers of Health
Society of Medical Officers of HealthDate: 1856-1998Reference: SA/SMO- Ephemera
Welfare and orphanages ephemera. Box 1.
- Archives and manuscripts
Medical miscellany
Fretchwell, Nathaniell, fl. 1674, of St Clement Danes, Middlesex, apothecaryDate: 1662-1907Reference: MS.9276