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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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Two health centres, two ideologies

Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.

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  • A soldier being interviewed for the medical corps who doesn't know where his spleen is. Wood engraving, 1912.
  • An army medical officer trying to find out from an ignorant soldier if he knows where his arteries are. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1907.
  • A soldier complaining of pain in his abdomen to a corporal, the corporal retorts that he has a stomach - only officers have abdomens. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1912.
  • A large and evil-looking army physician eagerly inoculates a fearful young man. Pen and ink drawing by F. May, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: an R.A.M.C. bearer supplying water to the front line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey.
  • World War I: an R.A.M.C. bearer supplying water to the front line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey.
  • World War I: an R.A.M.C. bearer supplying water to the front line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey.
  • World War I: an R.A.M.C. bearer supplying water to the front line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey.
  • World War I: an R.A.M.C. bearer supplying water to the front line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey.
  • World War I: an R.A.M.C. bearer supplying water to the front line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey.
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