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The cook who became a pariah

New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.

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Sick of the theatre

What makes the stage a good place to share real-life experiences of ill health?

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The solidarity of sickness

Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.

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When monarchs healed the sick

Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.

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  • Hospital for the sick poor, Marylebone Infirmary.
  • 'Panopepton' : the food for the sick / Fairchild Bros. & Foster.
  • Map indicating public and private Sanatoria and Hospitals for the tuberculous sick.
  • Nottingham: a verandah for open air treatment of the sick. Photograph, 1914.
  • 'Panopepton' : the food for the sick / Fairchild Brothers & Foster (Inc) New York.
  • 'Panopepton' : the food for the sick / Fairchild Brothers & Foster (Inc) New York.
  • The Hospital for Sick Children: Private Nurses House.
  • The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street
  • The sick and lame bend before the apostle Peter, hoping for cure. Coloured lithograph, 1863, after Masaccio.
  • The sick and lame bend before the apostle Peter, hoping for cure. Coloured lithograph, 1863, after Masaccio.
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