Stories
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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.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Coasting to catastrophe
In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.
Catalogue
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Drug-related deaths reported by coroners in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man, & procurators fiscal in Scotland.
Date: 2003-
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Reply from the surgeons of the Liverpool Northern Hospital, to a pamphlet, published by J.P. Halton, one of the surgeons of the Liverpool Infirmary.
Liverpool Northern Hospital.Date: 1844
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The outlook of the medical profession, scientific, social, financial : an address delivered before the North London Medical and Chirurgical Society on April 11, 1907, at the Great Northern Central Hospital / by James Grey Glover.
Glover, James Grey.Date: [1907?]
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King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
Dixon, E. H., active 1835-1859.Date: 1837Reference: 38709i- Film
Birthday : Triumph of childbirth.
Date: 1979