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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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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The rise and fall of a medical mesmerist
Uncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.
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A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine
Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.
Catalogue
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Directory of orthopaedic institutions, voluntary organizations and official schemes for the welfare of cripples, 1935.
Central Council for the Care of Cripples.Date: [1935], ©1935- Books
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Catalogue of the library of the Ophthalmological Society of Great Britain.
Date: 1899- Books
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The errors of accommodation and refraction of the eye and their treatment : a handbook for students / by Ernest Clarke.
Clarke, Ernest, 1857-1932.Date: 1911- Books
Annual report for the year 1926-27 : 29th year of issue adopted by the Board on 23 July, 1927 / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Date: 1927- Archives and manuscripts
Strangeways Research Laboratory
Strangeways, T.S.P., 1866-1926.Date: c.1901-1999Reference: SA/SRL