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The eyes have it
In 1583, eye specialist Georg Bartisch published a book detailing the treatments he’d developed for various eye disorders. Today his approach seems to mix surprising innovation with entirely contemporary religious judgement.
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Spanish flu and the depiction of disease
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed many millions more than World War I did. Find out why contemporary artistic depictions of its devastating impact are so rare.
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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
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Chinese C18: Paediatric pox - 'Eye Lock' pox
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A special report of the General Committee of the London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye : in which certain pretensions of Sir William Adams, advanced in the official papers published by order of the hon. directors of Greenwich Hospital, lately submitted to a medical committee, appointed by government, and affecting the rights of the Infirmary, and the merits of the late John Cunningham Saunders, Esq. its founder and surgeon, are examined and disproved by the correspondence of Mr. Saunders, and other documents.
London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye.Date: 1815- Ephemera
Eye care and diseases ephemera. Box 1.
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On the relations between dental lesions and diseases of the eye / by Henry Power.
Power, H. (Henry), 1829-1911.Date: 1883- Books
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On some of the diseases and injuries of the eye peculiar to children / by Sydney Stephenson.
Stephenson, Sydney, 1862-1923.Date: [1905]