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The poor child’s nurse

Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.

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Dying at home and the doctor’s role

Our anonymous GP talks about the bittersweet rewards of supporting a patient when he chose to die at home.

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Why we no longer keep our dead at home

Today in the UK we rarely sit with, touch, or perhaps even see our loved ones after they’ve died. Past practices were very different and, Claire Cock-Starkey argues, were more helpful for those grieving.

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The empty bungalow

Grandma’s unsteady piles of stuff have been dismantled and dispersed. From an empty bungalow, Georgie Evans makes a plea for hoarding behaviour to be better understood.

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  • Lawson Tait with his nursing home staff. Copy photograph, ca. 1930, after original photograph, 1892.
  • The London Hospital, Whitechapel: the medical college and nursing home. Wood engraving by E. G. after F. Watkins, 1887.
  • A typical morning in a nursing-home: the patient seeks rest but is coninually being woken up. Process print after W.K. Haselden.
  • Organization of nursing : an account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training School, its foundation, progress, and operation in hospital, district, and private nursing / by a member of the committee of the Home and Training School ; with an introduction and notes by Florence Nightingale.
  • The Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911) : as supplied to hospitals and nursing homes : sole makers of the genuine yaghourt preparations for life prolonging : 22, Great Chapel Street, (corner of 101-103 Oxford St.) Oxford Street, W.1., London / Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911).
  • The Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911) : as supplied to hospitals and nursing homes : sole makers of the genuine yaghourt preparations for life prolonging : 22, Great Chapel Street, (corner of 101-103 Oxford St.) Oxford Street, W.1., London / Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911).
  • The Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911) : as supplied to hospitals and nursing homes : sole makers of the genuine yaghourt preparations for life prolonging : 22, Great Chapel Street, (corner of 101-103 Oxford St.) Oxford Street, W.1., London / Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911).
  • The Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911) : as supplied to hospitals and nursing homes : sole makers of the genuine yaghourt preparations for life prolonging : 22, Great Chapel Street, (corner of 101-103 Oxford St.) Oxford Street, W.1., London / Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911).
  • The Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911) : as supplied to hospitals and nursing homes : sole makers of the genuine yaghourt preparations for life prolonging : 22, Great Chapel Street, (corner of 101-103 Oxford St.) Oxford Street, W.1., London / Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911).
  • The Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911) : as supplied to hospitals and nursing homes : sole makers of the genuine yaghourt preparations for life prolonging : 22, Great Chapel Street, (corner of 101-103 Oxford St.) Oxford Street, W.1., London / Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911).
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