Stories
- In pictures
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.
- Article
Spanish flu and the depiction of disease
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed many millions more than World War I did. Find out why contemporary artistic depictions of its devastating impact are so rare.
- Article
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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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Disorders of Secretion of the Endocrine Glands associated with Eye Diseases
Date: 1930Reference: MS.2366/6Part of: Fisher, John Herbert (1867-1933)- Journals
Annual report / Shropshire Hospital for the Cure of Diseases of the Eye and Ear.
Shropshire Hospital for the Cure of Diseases of the Eye and Ear.Date: 1829-- Books
Eye diseases.
Date: [1956?]- Books
Eye diseases of children / by Geoffry C. Hall.
Hall, Geoffry C.Date: 1884- Books
- Online
Annual report : 1867 / Shropshire Hospital for the Cure of Diseases of the Eye and Ear.
Shropshire Hospital for the Cure of Diseases of the Eye and Ear. no2006015305.Date: 1867