Stories
- In pictures
The celebrity physician and the plague
The iconic “plague prevention costume” invented by a 17th-century French doctor secured his fame in royal circles. But other aspects of Charles de Lorme’s career made him a controversial figure.
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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
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Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
Catalogue
- Books
Physician and patient : personal care / edited by L. Eugene Emerson.
Date: 1929- Archives and manuscripts
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M0002793: "Physician opening a bubo of a plague patient"
Date: 28 January 1932Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/23/62Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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Physician and patient, or, A practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community / from the text of William Hooker [sic] ; edited by Edward Bentley.
Hooker, Worthington, 1806-1867.Date: 1850- Books
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Physician and patient; or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community / from the text of William Hooker ; edited by Edward Bentley.
Hooker, Worthington, 1806-1867.Date: 1850- Archives and manuscripts
Physician's patient book?
Date: 1885-1887Reference: SA/HEB/E/2/8Part of: Heberden Collection