Stories
- Article
Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
- Article
Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
- 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.
- Article
Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
British Social Hygiene Council
British Social Hygiene CouncilDate: 20th centuryReference: SA/BSH- Books
- Online
These are the times that try men's souls! A letter to John Frost. A prisoner in Newgate. By Henry Yorke.
Yorke, Henry Redhead, 1772-1813.Date: [1793]- Books
Life and death in Georgian England : catalogue of an exhibition held in the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, 2 April - 23 May 1997 / [compiled by Dorothea Rowse].
Rowse, Dorothea.Date: [1995?]- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Henry Wellcome Letter Book 5
Date: Jan 1899 - Aug 1901Reference: WF/E/01/01/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Dottrine e metodi assistenziali dal 1789 al 1848. Italia - Francia - Inghilterra / [Arnaldo Cherubini].
Cherubini, Arnaldo.Date: 1958