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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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Getting under the skin

Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.

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When skin bleaching goes wrong

Warnings about permanent health damage don’t deter those using skin-bleaching products for years on end. Read the story of one woman who suffered from liver failure after years of striving to be paler.

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The making of ‘Quacks’

How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?

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  • St. Thomas' Hospital, London, England: exterior. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • St. Charles Hospital Medical Centre, London, England: exterior. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith, London, England: under construction. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • Guy's Hospital, London, England: a tower block under construction. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • Hammersmith Hospital, London, England: the intensive care and dialysis unit: exterior. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • St. Thomas' Hospital, London, England: exterior view showing scaffolding on the building and the River Thames in the foreground. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • Friern Hospital, London: a man's face showing tuberculosis of the skin (lupus vulgaris). Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • Friern Hospital, London: a man's face showing tuberculosis of the skin (lupus vulgaris). Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • Clinical lectures and reports by the medical and surgical staff.
  • Seamen's Hospital Society [letter head] : ("Dreadnought"), Greenwich, S.E. 10.
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