Stories
- Article
The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
- Article
The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.
- Article
The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
- Article
London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
The sailing and fighting instructions or signals as they are observed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain.
Greenwood, Jonathan.Date: 1715?]- Books
Reports of the Committee upon the Physiology of Vision. 12, Colour vision requirements in the Royal Navy.
Medical Research Council (Great Britain). Committee on the Physiology of Vision.Date: 1933- Books
1. A report upon the seasonal outbreak of cerebro-spinal fever in the Navy at Portsmouth, 1916-1917. 2. The treatment of cerebro-spinal meningitis by anti-meningococcus serum at the Royal Naval Hospital, Hasler, 1915-16-17.
Date: 1918- Books
- Online
The royal Navy suitably manned, being the safety of Great Britain, the exercise of which the terror of other nations, and several former motions, shews a desire that some easy method may be found for manning the whole, or any part as occasion may require, which encourage me to offer this to the Honourable the Parliament of Great Britain, as the only and effectual way to man the Royal Navy with able seamen, without this abusive, destructive and chargeable method of impressing.
Gray, Galfridus.Date: 1725]- Books
- Online
Plans for increasing the naval force of Great Britain by rendering the service a more desirable object to officers and seamen, in which the following classes are particularly considered: masters and commanders, masters', mates, midshipmen, and able seamen. Also some hints offered towards their better establishment. Addressed to the Right Honourable William Pitt. By Richard Clarke, M.D. surgeon in the Royal Navy.
Clarke, Richard, M.D.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]