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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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Coasting to catastrophe

In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.

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Getting under the skin

Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.

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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

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  • Lobelia cardinalis L Campanulaceae Cardinal lobelia Distribution: Americas, Colombia to south-eastern Canada. The genus was named after Matthias de L’Obel or Lobel, (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician to James I of England, author of the great herbal Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia (1576). Lobeline, a chemical from the plant has nicotine like actions and for a while lobeline was used to help people withdraw from smoking, but was found to be ineffective. It was introduced from Virginia to John Parkinson in England by John Newton (1580-1647) a surgeon of Colyton (aka Colliton), Devon, who travelled to Virginia. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • St. Thomas' Hospital, London, England: exterior. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • St. Charles Hospital Medical Centre, London, England: exterior. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith, London, England: under construction. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • Guy's Hospital, London, England: a tower block under construction. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • Hammersmith Hospital, London, England: the intensive care and dialysis unit: exterior. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • St. Thomas' Hospital, London, England: exterior view showing scaffolding on the building and the River Thames in the foreground. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • East London Hospital for Children: New Year's Eve Festival.
  • St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the facade from the east. Engraving after T. H. Shepherd.
  • The Cruciform Building, University College Hospital, London: perspective from the south-east. Colour lithograph. 190-.
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