Stories
- In pictures
Florence Nightingale, Victorian design and the treatment of Covid-19
Discover how the design of Britain’s Nightingale hospitals, set up during the first national lockdown, is based closely on Florence Nightingale’s pioneering ideas for the most effective hospital layout.
- Article
Paris Morgue and a public spectacle of death
Known as the “only free theatre in Paris”, La Morgue was a popular place for the public to view cadavers on display.
- Article
Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
English Medical Student, Paris, early 19th century
Date: early 19th CenturyReference: MS.7147- Archives and manuscripts
Bankart, James (1834-1902), surgeon and ophthalmologist
Bankart, James (1834-1902), MB Lond, FRCSDate: Mid 19th century - late 19th centuryReference: PP/JBA- Archives and manuscripts
SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL {WOODSIDE HOSPITAL}
Date: 1750 - 2001Reference: H64- Archives and manuscripts
Powell, Richard (1767-1834), physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7433/4Part of: Miscellany: English, 18th-20th centuries (chiefly 19th)- Archives and manuscripts
Patient Certificates and Notices: Admission dates 1875-1883.
Ticehurst House HospitalDate: mid 19th century - late 19th centuryReference: MS.6328Part of: Ticehurst House Hospital