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- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
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- 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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Hospitals, Military
Date: c. 1810Reference: MS.2949- Archives and manuscripts
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The medical organization for cavalry, by Lieutenant Colonel H.F. Humphreys, reprinted from the Journal of the RAMC, Dec 1927
Date: 1927Reference: RAMC/791/7Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
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On the prevention of disease amongst armies engaged in active operations in the field, with special reference to the sanitary organization of a field force
Date: 20th centuryReference: RAMC/562/4Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
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Experiences of a civilian in Eastern military hospitals : with observations on the English, French and other medical departments and the organization of military medical schools and hospitals / by Peter Pincoffs.
Pincoffs, Peter, 1816-1872.Date: 1857- Books
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Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the regulations affecting the sanitary condition of the army, the organization of military hospitals, and the treatment of the sick and wounded ; with evidence and appendix. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty.
Great Britain. Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary Condition of the Army.Date: 1858