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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 work of wet-nursing

Many of us know that in the past, babies were sometimes nourished by wet-nurses. But, perhaps surprisingly, the practice continues today – and the milk recipients are not only babies.

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How hospital care fails disabled bodies

Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.

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Care, creativity and a connected world

Find out about the challenges Wellcome Collection has faced during the last very demanding year.

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  • Community care : nursing, midwifery and health visiting / prepared for the Department of Health and Social Security by the Central Office of Information.
  • Community care : nursing, midwifery and health visiting / prepared for the Department of Health and Social Security by the Central Office of Information.
  • Nocturnal scene on a battlefield:a woman nursing a wounded soldier is pleading with a man intending to plunder the bodies to spare the man in her care. Wood engraving by F. Gilbert after J. Gilbert.
  • Nurses caring for patients in Morocco: celebrating International Nursing Day on 12 May 2002 . Colour lithograph by Moroccan Ministry of Health, 2002.
  • A pregnant woman being examined by a nurse: antenatal care in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph for Unicef, 2000.
  • A complete system of nursing / by A. Millicent Ashdown.
  • A general textbook of nursing : a comprehensive guide to the final state examinations / by Evelyn C. Pearce.
  • A nurse holding a baby. Engraving.
  • A young woman takes the hand of a sick man, while an older woman listens. Line engraving by C. Grignion after P. Sandby.
  • Fountain : a unique residential facility for people living with HIV/AIDS and experiencing problems with drug use.
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