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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
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Beating the bodysnatchers
When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.
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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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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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At the Annual Meeting of the Aborigines' Protection Society, on May 17th, 1893, Miss Colenso was asked to move the following Resolution : 'That this meeting, while welcoming the evidence of a growing desire on the part of Her Majesty's Government to deal justly with the native races under its rule, is of opinion that greatly increased watchfulness and energy are needed to protect the aborigines of Africa from injury by the present extension of European influence in various parts of the continent, alike under British and under other auspices'.
Colenso, Harriette Emily, 1847-1932.Date: [1893]- Books
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The Bishop of Oxford and Prof. Ruskin on vivisection.
Mackarness, John Fielder, 1820-1889.Date: [1884]- Books
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A contribution to the knowledge of protection against infectious diseases / by Alfred Lingard ; communicated by E. Klein.
Lingard, Alfred.Date: [1889]- Books
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Light in dark places / by Frances Power Cobbe.
Cobbe, Frances Power, 1822-1904.Date: [1883]- Archives and manuscripts
Local Government Reorganisation
Date: May 1971-Jul 1972Reference: SA/SMO/L.92Part of: Society of Medical Officers of Health