Stories
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The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
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Why the NHS is worth saving
In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.
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Diagnosed bipolar, prescribed lithium
In the first part of a series looking into lithium, Laura Grace Simpkins recounts the beginning of her troubled relationship with this mysterious drug.
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Trust me, I’m a patient
Artist Rachel Rowan Olive is an expert in the way her mental health condition affects her. Here she explains how it helps if doctors understand that.
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Sick-nursing essentially a woman's mission : being an inaugural lecture on the qualifications for and the conduct of sick-nurses, delivered at the opening of the new school of nursing in Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, on May 1, 1877 / by Dyce Duckworth.
Date: 1877- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence - General Meeting and Executive Committee
Date: 3 Feb 1967Reference: SA/CMO/C/98Part of: Association of County Medical Officers of Health and the County Medical Officers Group of the Society of Medical Officers of Health- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence - General Meeting and Executive Committee
Date: 18 Sep 1970Reference: SA/CMO/C/128Part of: Association of County Medical Officers of Health and the County Medical Officers Group of the Society of Medical Officers of Health- Ephemera
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AIDS : sharing the challenge - changing attitudes : Monday, December 2 1991 : The Officer's Mess, Imperial War Museum, Duxford, near Cambridge / Anglia Polytechnic, Nursing Standard.
Date: 1991- Archives and manuscripts
Nursing lecture notebook
Date: Oct 1941-Mar 1944Reference: MS.8597Part of: Nursing lecture notebooks of Hedwig Lehmann (1919-2002)