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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists

Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.

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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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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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The problem of the punctured heart

During World War II a young American surgeon working in England perfected shrapnel-removal techniques that saved dozens of lives. Discover how one case sealed his reputation as the founder of cardiac surgery.

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  • Saint Pancras smallpox hospital, London. Oil painting.
  • Saint Pancras smallpox hospital, London. Oil painting.
  • Saint Pancras smallpox hospital, London. Oil painting.
  • Saint Pancras smallpox hospital, London. Oil painting after G.S. Shepherd, 1806.
  • London Missionary School of Medicine: a group of students. Photograph, 1907/1908.
  • The Hospital for Consumption, Brompton Road, Fulham: viewed from the road. Lithograph by T. G. Dutton after F. J. Francis, 1844.
  • The Hospital for Consumption, Brompton Road, Fulham: viewed from the road. Lithograph by T. G. Dutton after F. J. Francis, 1844.
  • The blind school, Southwark. Engraving.
  • The Smallpox Hospital, St Pancras, London: with a wide expanse of grass in the foreground. Engraving.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, children playing with a boat on a pond in the foreground. Engraving by R. Watkins, August 1811, after G. Arnald, June 1811.
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