Stories
- In pictures
Florence Nightingale, Victorian design and the treatment of Covid-19
Discover how the design of Britain’s Nightingale hospitals, set up during the first national lockdown, is based closely on Florence Nightingale’s pioneering ideas for the most effective hospital layout.
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Paris Morgue and a public spectacle of death
Known as the “only free theatre in Paris”, La Morgue was a popular place for the public to view cadavers on display.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
English Medical Student, Paris, early 19th century
Date: early 19th CenturyReference: MS.7147- Archives and manuscripts
Ts., 'What has Burns done for Scotland?' by Cantlie, for a speech to the [?London Burns Society]
Date: late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7938/25Part of: Cantlie, Sir James, F.R.C.S. (1851-1926)- Archives and manuscripts
Bankart, James (1834-1902), surgeon and ophthalmologist
Bankart, James (1834-1902), MB Lond, FRCSDate: Mid 19th century - late 19th centuryReference: PP/JBA- Books
A history of disability in nineteenth-century Scotland / Iain Hutchison ; with a foreword by Rab Houston.
Hutchison, Iain.Date: [2007], ©2007- Archives and manuscripts
SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL {WOODSIDE HOSPITAL}
Date: 1750 - 2001Reference: H64