Stories
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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 mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
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The ancient doctors who refused payment
The NHS might only be 70 years old, but the idea of free healthcare goes back to Ancient Greece, when devout doctors provided their services without charge.
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Bleeding healthy
For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
M0007076: Manuscript illustration of a physician, patient and nurse
Date: 30 July 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/60/64Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Film
Partners in health.
Date: 1986
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
M0007075: Manuscript illustration of a physician and patient
Date: 30 July 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/60/63Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
M0007008: Manuscript page from Livre des proprietez des choses depicting a physician talking to patients
Date: 22 July 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/59/97Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
Human relations in obstetrics.
Date: 1961