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The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Three days before the patient is brought to Bethlem to be viewed, you are to leave in writing at the Clerk's Office in Bridwell Hospital, Fleet-street - the names of two housekeepers within the bills of mortality, with the particular places of theri abode, and in what parish, and what business they follow - to be security for the patient upon admittance.
Bridewell Royal HospitalDate: 1775?]- Books
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Bridewell and Bethlem Hospitals. January 16, 1792. Your worship is desired to meet at a court at Bridewell Hospital, on Thursday the 2d of February next, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon, about business concerning the said hospitals. - And particularly to elect a physician, in the room of Dr. John Monro, deceased. ...
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Bridewell and Bethlem Hospitals. January 2, 1792. Your worship is desired to meet at a court at Bridewell Hospital, on Tuesday the 10th day of January instant, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, about business concerning the said hospitals. - And particularly to declare the vacancy of a physician, on th death of Doctor John Monro. ...
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A critical review of the public buildings, statues, and ornaments, In and about London and Westminister. Originally written by - Ralphk, architect, and now reprinted with very large additions. The whole being digested into a six days tour, in which every thing worthy the attention of the judicious enquirer, is pointed out and described.
Ralph, James, -1762.Date: 1783- Books
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Designs in architecture; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings; for decorating Pleasure - Ground, Parks, Forests, &c. &c. Engraved on 38 copper-plates. By John Soan.
Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]