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The eyes have it
In 1583, eye specialist Georg Bartisch published a book detailing the treatments he’d developed for various eye disorders. Today his approach seems to mix surprising innovation with entirely contemporary religious judgement.
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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
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Confession as therapy in the Middle Ages
The line between confession and counselling has been blurred for centuries.
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The girl with no name
When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.
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Chinese C18: Paediatric pox - 'Eye Lock' pox
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The Treatment of Infectious and Contagious Diseases by the Serum method, by "Civis mundi" Vol I
Date: c. 1898Reference: MS.8498Part of: The Treatment of Infectious and Contagious Diseases by the Serum method, by "Civis mundi"- Books
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Syllabus of lectures on the theory and practice of midwifery: Including The Pathology or general Doctrine of acute and chronic Diseases incident to Women and Children, with their Treatment and Cure. - For the clearer Demonstration of operative Midwisery (whether simply by the Hand, or Application of Instruments) the several Methods of assisting in laborious and preternatural Labours, will not only be described according to the most approved modern Practice, but likewise distinctly shewn by an artificial Representation of each difficult Case, upon Machines of a new Construction. The whole will be illustrated by such Anatomical Preparations as are applicable to each Lecture; with various Observations, extraordinary Cases, and necessary Cautions; but particularly, by real Labours. By John Leake, M. D. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London, and Physician to the Westminster Lying-in Hospital, At his House in Craven-Street in the Strand.
Leake, John, 1729-1792.Date: 1782- Archives and manuscripts
KilInc: Fungal Infections - Drug Treatment
Date: 1990Reference: SA/WHL/14/16Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Books
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A special report of the General Committee of the London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye : in which certain pretensions of Sir William Adams, advanced in the official papers published by order of the hon. directors of Greenwich Hospital, lately submitted to a medical committee, appointed by government, and affecting the rights of the Infirmary, and the merits of the late John Cunningham Saunders, Esq. its founder and surgeon, are examined and disproved by the correspondence of Mr. Saunders, and other documents.
London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye.Date: 1815