Stories
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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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Sharing breastmilk with parents
Alev Scott donated her frozen breastmilk to a hospital milk bank, but she was curious about other routes. Here she explores commercial operations and informal private arrangements.
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Ken’s ten: looking back at ten years of Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection founder Ken Arnold picks his favourite exhibits.
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Bristol General Hospital. Process print, ca. 1900.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 662560i
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Bristol General Hospital. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1858, after B. Sly after W.B. Gingell.
Sly, Benjamin, active 1841-1883.Date: 17 April 1858Reference: 15694i- Journals
Annual report / Bristol Royal Hospital "Charity Universal" incorporating the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Bristol General Hospital.
Bristol Royal Hospital.Date: 1939-
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Annual report : 1940 / Bristol Royal Hospital Charity Universal incorporating the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Bristol General Hospital.
Bristol Royal Hospital.Date: 1940
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Annual report : 1941 / Bristol Royal Hospital Charity Universal incorporating the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Bristol General Hospital.
Bristol Royal Hospital.Date: 1941