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NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare

The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.

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“Life and the universe change our plans”

Artist Lil Sullivan returns to the printmaking workshop for the first time after her stroke, and uses broken and discarded everyday objects to create art.

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The father of handwashing

Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.

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The extraordinary body of Evatima Tardo

Darling of 19th-century American freak shows, Evatima Tardo remained serene as she withstood crucifixion and the bites of poisonous snakes. But she took the secret behind her abilities to her grave.

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  • A Mughal Empress or member of the royal family, sitting straight, with one hand over the other. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Members of the International Congress on Tuberculosis
  • Members of the Malaria Commission on the Danube delta, 1929
  • Members of the Second International Congress on the Standardization of Sex Hormones. Photograph, 1935.
  • Members of the medical faculty at Edinburgh University, gathered around a table. Lithograph by Schenck and McFarlane after L. Ghémar, ca.1850.
  • Members of the medical faculty at Edinburgh University, gathered around a table. Lithograph by Schenck and McFarlane after L. Ghémar, ca.1850.
  • Four members of the World Health Organization Committee on Malaria Terminology. Photograph.
  • A group of vaccinators leading a small-pocked woman form a procession past a university, with Death waving his scythe behind them; the members of the university doze in the foreground; attributing the decline of Germany in 19th century to vaccination and syphilis. Lithograph after C.G.G. Nittinger, 1856.
  • Members of the Photographic Society club, with H.W. Diamond on the left. Photograph, ca. 1856.
  • Portrait of B. G. Babington MBFRS, later on the physicians to Guy's Hospital, a member of the St. Albans Medical Club
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