Stories
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Good animals, bad humans?
Could an animal be more evolved than a human? Victorian psychologists thought that in some cases the answer could be ‘yes’.
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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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Report / Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, Red Hill, Surrey.
Earlswood Asylum for Idiots (Redhill, Surrey, England)Date: 1848-1913- Books
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Rules and bye-laws of the Asylum for Idiots : [Earlswood, Red Hill, Surrey].
Earlswood Asylum for Idiots (Redhill, Surrey, England)Date: [date of publication not identified]- Pictures
Royal Asylum for Idiots (Earlswood), Redhill, Surrey. Steel engraving, 1863.
Date: 27 June 1863Reference: 589091i- Books
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A visit to Earlswood, (the Asylum for Idiots), May 19, 1859 / by the Rev. Edwin Sidney, A.M.
Sidney, Edwin, -1872.Date: 1865- Books
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Second visit to Earlswood, (The Asylum for Idiots,) May 17, adjourned to June 8, 1861.
Sidney, Edwin, -1872.Date: [1861?]