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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

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The problem of the punctured heart

During World War II a young American surgeon working in England perfected shrapnel-removal techniques that saved dozens of lives. Discover how one case sealed his reputation as the founder of cardiac surgery.

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Medics and the bomb

Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.

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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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  • Roman Military Hospital - Valetudinarium - late 1st c. A.D.
  • Military Hospital V.R. 76, Ris-Orangis, France: wounded soldier - 10 inch gash from sword at Verdun in 1st world war. Photograph, 1916.
  • Cheerio. No.1, November, 1918 / by the patients & staff of the Military Orthopaedic Hospital, Ducane Road, Shepherd's Bush, London W.
  • Cheerio. No.1, November, 1918 / by the patients & staff of the Military Orthopaedic Hospital, Ducane Road, Shepherd's Bush, London W.
  • Victoria Military Hospital, Netley, Hampshire. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1856, after B. Sly.
  • A hospital ward in the military hospital, Portsea. Wood engraving by W. Thomas, 1855.
  • A hospital ward in the military hospital, Portsea. Wood engraving by W. Thomas, 1855.
  • Victoria military hospital, Netley, Southampton: perspective view. Wood engraving, 1859.
  • Holmleigh Auxiliary Military Hospital, Harrow: a nurse and two soldiers, one of whom has a bandage on his head, sitting on deck chairs in a garden with blossom trees in the background. Photograph, c. 1922.
  • Holmleigh Auxiliary Military Hospital, Harrow: a soldier with amnesia sitting in a room with a huge Union Jack flag on the wall in the background. Photograph, c. 1922.
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