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When contemporary dance meets dyspraxia

Discover why a rare neurological condition meant an enthusiastic club-night dancer struggled with formal dance classes. And how persisting with those classes paid off.

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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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Society, not Covid-19, makes us vulnerable

Rick Burgess coped with the death of his mother in February 2020 by immersing himself in the task of protecting his community from Covid-19 and challenging the government's failure to protect and support elderly and Disabled people during the pandemic.

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The rise and fall of a medical mesmerist

Uncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.

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  • The Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.
  • The Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.
  • Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries meeting at Somerset House, London. Engraving by H. Melville after F.W. Fairholt.
  • The Medical Society of London: John Coakley Lettsom presenting to the society the deeds of 3 Bolt Court, City of London. Stipple engraving by N.C. Branwhite, 1801, after S. Medley, 1800.
  • Conference of the German society for medical history, meeting in Homburg, Germany, 1927: delegates. Photograph by T.H. Voigt, 1927.
  • Wand of Office of a Scottish Medical Society. Silver. At the head a thistle surmounted by two demons in a squatting position. Hallmarked, London, Victorian.
  • The Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London : centenary, 1805-1905 / written at the request of the president and council by Norman Moore and Stephen Paget.
  • The Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London : centenary, 1805-1905 / written at the request of the president and council by Norman Moore and Stephen Paget.
  • A prize medal of the Medical Society of London; on the front is Queen Charlotte and on reverse is Hygieia with a serpent. Engraving by R.G. Reeve.
  • A dissertation on the natural history and medicinal effects of the secale cornutum, or ergot / By Oliver Prescott. Read at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, June 2, 1813.
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