Stories
- Article
Bleeding healthy
For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
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.
- Article
Remote diagnosis from wee to the Web
Medical practice might have moved on from when patients posted flasks of their urine for doctors to taste, but telehealth today keeps up the tradition of remote diagnosis – to our possible detriment.
Catalogue
- Pictures
Military Hospital nursing wounded soldiers from Abyssinia. Pen drawing by A.G. Wildey.
Wildey, Alexander Gascoigne, 1860-1934.Reference: 20889i
- Ephemera
- Online
What do nurses say about... ...the nursing implications of nuclear war? / Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons.
Date: [1983?]
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Subsidiary notes as to the introduction of female nursing into Military Hospitals in peace and in war [by Florence Nightingale] (London: Harrison and sons, 1858)
Date: 1858Reference: RAMC/1368Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Report re nursing of war wounds and statistics re distribution of nursing officers
Date: 1943Reference: RAMC/466/43Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
- Ephemera
- Online
Railway warrant for the use only of officers, ladies of Q.A.I. military nursing service, and the families of officers enumerated in paragraph 339, allowance regulations, travelling on duty without troops in the United Kingdom / War Office.
Date: [1919?]