Stories
- Article
The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
- Article
The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
- Book extract
Why the NHS is worth saving
In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.
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The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Clinical Genetics in Britain Related Documents
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1958-1997Reference: GC/253/A/39/9Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Journals
Members handbook - Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom.
Date: 1971-- Pictures
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Crimean War: Sisters of Charity nursing wounded soldiers from the Battle of Inkerman. Coloured lithograph by Le Par (?), 1855.
Le Par.Date: [23 June 1855]Reference: 21052i- Books
Home for the weekend - back on Monday : a study of a five-day ward for the rehabilitation of geriatric patients / Joan W. Parnell, Roger Naylor.
Parnell, Joan W. (Joan Winifred)Date: 1973- Books
Prelude to practice : a study of fieldwork teaching and the needs of the health visitor student / Anne Dean.
Dean, Anne.Date: 1985