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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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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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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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The Foundling Hospital: the main buildings seen from within the grounds. Engraving by Elizabeth Byrne after J. P. Neale, 1816.
Neale, John Preston, 1771?-1847.Date: 1 June 1816Reference: 37762i- Books
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The curiosities of London and Westminster described. In four volumes. Embellished with elegant copper plates. Volume II. Containing a Description of Guildhall Guildhall Chapel The Bank of England St. Thomas's Hospital The Mansion House Foundling Hospital The East India House St. Stephen's Walbrook St. Mary le Bow Bridewell Hospital Christ's Hospital, and London Stone.
Date: [1783]- Books
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Whitelockes notes uppon the Kings writt for choosing members of Parlement XIII Car II being disquisitions on the government of England by King Lords and Commons. Published by Charles Morton, M. D. Secretary of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and of the imperial Leopoldine and Petersburg Academies, First Under Librarian of the British Museum, and Physician to the Foundling Hospital. ...
Whitlocke, Bulstrode, 1605-1675 or 1676.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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The foundling hospital for wit.
Date: 1743-1749- Books
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The new foundling hospital for wit.
Date: [1784-1786]