Stories
- In pictures
The evolution of war-zone medicine
The need to deal with battlefield injuries has led to inventive designs for extreme situations. Find out how camel-drawn ambulances and flat-pack hospitals have helped casualties survive.
- Article
Printing the body
The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.
- Article
The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
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Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Recipe Book, 18th and 19th Century
Date: late 18th century to early 19th centuryReference: MS.7978- Archives and manuscripts
Powell, Richard (1767-1834), physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7433/4Part of: Miscellany: English, 18th-20th centuries (chiefly 19th)- Archives and manuscripts
Patient Certificates and Notices: Admission dates 1793-1866.
Ticehurst House HospitalDate: late 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.6326Part of: Ticehurst House Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Patient Certificates and Notices
Ticehurst House HospitalDate: late 18th century - mid 20th centuryReference: MSS.6326-6360Part of: Ticehurst House Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Letters by C. Carmichael, signed.
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7659/8-9Part of: Smyth, James Carmichael, F.R.C.P. F.R.S. (1741-1821), Royal physician, physician to Middlesex Hospital, and family