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'.
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL {WOODSIDE HOSPITAL}
Date: 1750 - 2001Reference: H64- Archives and manuscripts
Society of Medical Officers of Health
Society of Medical Officers of HealthDate: 1856-1998Reference: SA/SMO- Books
- Online
Bampton, N. Devon, as a health resort : an invaluable mineral spring.
Date: [1886]- Books
Medical microbiology in Palestine and Israel, bacteria, diseases and public health 19th - 20th centuries : a bibliography / collected and edited by Zalman Greenberg.
Date: 2007- Books
- Online
Reports relating to the sanitary condition of London / By John Simon.
Simon, John, Sir, 1816-1904.Date: MDCCCLIV [1854]