Stories
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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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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
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Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
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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.
Catalogue
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Saint Christopher. Woodcut attributed to W.Y. Ottley.
Date: 1816Reference: 4636i
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Infant asylum, for the preserving of the lives, of children of hired wet-nurses, and others: and for the removing of the risks and difficulties in obtaining healthy and reputable wet-nurses, and experienced dry-nurses.
Infant Asylum (London, England)Date: 1799- Books
A Victorian charity : the Infant Orphan Asylum at Wanstead / [Donald Grist ; research by R.V. Hatt] ; with an introduction by Mary Stocks.
Grist, Donald.Date: 1974
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Infant Orphan Asylum, Snaresbrook, Essex: panoramic view. Etching by J. Davies after A.W. Wray.
Wray, A. W., active 1840.Reference: 22807i
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Infant Orphan Asylum, Snaresbrook, Essex: perspective view. Coloured lithograph by G. Hawkins after G.G. Scott and W.B. Moffat.
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878.Reference: 23971i