Stories
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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Medics, migration and the NHS
In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Clark, John. A. - Drug Addiction in Great Britain Today with Special Reference to Prognosis
Date: 1963Reference: DGH1/6/18/43Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Crichton-Browne, Sir James - Dexterity and the Bend Sinister
Date: 1907Reference: DGH1/10/2/6Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Books
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A system of rhetorick, in a method entirely new. Containing all the tropes and figures, necessary to illustrate the classicks, both Poetical and Historical. For the Use of Schools. By John Sterling, M.A. To which is added, The art of rhetorick made easy: or the elements of oratory, Briefly stated, and fitted for the Practice of the Studious Youth of Great - Britain and Ireland: Illustrated with proper Examples to each Figure, and a Collection of Speeches from the best English Authors. By John Holmes.
Stirling, John, -1777.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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A collection of papers on naval architecture, originally communicated through the channel of the European Magazine, in which publication the further communications on this subject will be continued. To which are added, I. An Appendix of Original Letters, &c.; containing various Communications and Observations on Subjects connected with Naval Architecture. II. An Essay towards a General View of the Literature of the Art of Ship-Building. By Capt. Muller. III. Books relating to the Explication of the Technical Terms of the Art of Ship-Building. - Writings relating to the Theory of the Art of Ship-Building. - Writings relating to the Practice of the Art of Ship-Building. By the Same. IV. Appendix to the Catalogue of Books on Naval Architecture; containing such as areomitted by the Author of the Essay on the Literature of Ship-Building. Part II.
Date: [1792]- Books
Enquiry into the practice and effects of Scientology : report / by Sir John G. Foster.
Foster, John Galway, Sir.Date: [1971]