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The last glass-eye maker in Britain

Meet Jost Haas – the UK’s last artificial-eye maker working exclusively with glass.

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Epidemic threats and racist legacies

Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.

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Doctor in the house

A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.

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When depression is worse than physical illness

Chronic physical illnesses can be accompanied by troubling depressive symptoms. Elly Aylwin-Foster urges doctors to treat every aspect of her condition with the same care.

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  • King's College Hospital, Camberwell, London: entrance. Coloured lithograph by T. Picken.
  • King's College Hospital, London: resident medical officers, 1930. Photograph by Bassano, 1930.
  • King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London: view of the boiler room. Process print after W. A. Pite, 1912.
  • King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London: detail views of a ward pavilion. Process print after W. A. Pite, 1912.
  • Buildings and surgeons and physicians of King's College Hospital, London. Coloured lithograph by Beynon & Company after H. Hale.
  • King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London: detail drawings of one bay of a ward pavilion. Process print after W. A. Pite, 1912.
  • King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London: a three-quarter view of the entrance in Bessemer Road. Process print after B. Hanslip Fletcher, 1938.
  • King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London: elevation of the administration block, with many details and a scale of feet. Process print after W. A. Pite, 1912.
  • King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London: the entrance facade of the administrative block, towards Bessemer Road, above, and details, below. Process print after W. A. Pite, 1912.
  • Certain necessary directions, as well for the cure of the plague, as for preventing the infection with many easie medicines of small charge, very profitable to His Majesties subjects / Set downe by the Colledge of Physicians by the Kings Majesties speciall command. With sundry orders thought meet by His Majestie, and his Privie Councell for prevention of the plague. Also certaine select statutes ... Together with His Majesties proclamation for further direction therein and a decree in Starre-Chamber. Concerning buildings and in-mates.
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