Stories
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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The Smallpox Hospital, St Pancras, London. Engraving by W. Woolnoth after G.S. Shepherd, 1806.
Shepherd, George Sidney, 1784-1862.Date: 1806Reference: 38702i- Books
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Observations on illegitimacy in the London parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, and St. George's, Southwark, during the year 1857 : deduced from the returns of the Registrar-General / by William Acton.
Acton, William, 1813-1875.Date: [1859]- Pictures
William Woodville, with a vignette of the St Pancras smallpox hospital. Stipple engraving, 1806, by W. Bond after L. F. Abbott and W. Woolnoth after G.S. Shepherd.
Abbott, Lemuel, 1760 or 1761-1802.Date: 1806Reference: 9775i- Books
Case illustrating the fatal influence of grief during the puerperal state / by George D. Gibb ..., Physician-Accoucheur, and Physician for Diseases of Women and Children, St. Pancras' Royal Dispensary.
Gibb, G. Duncan (George Duncan), Sir, 1821-1876Date: 1860- Books
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Report on the accommodation in St. Pancras workhouse / by Henry Bence Jones ; presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.
Jones, Bence, 1814-1873.Date: 1856