Stories
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
A medieval guide to practical magic
With few sources of effective help available when treating an injured patient, the medieval physician could instead stage a healing ceremony using a practical how-to guide he carried with him.
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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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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
Catalogue
- Books
That good night : life and medicine in the eleventh hour / Sunita Puri.
Puri, Sunita, 1979-Date: 2019- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Henry Wellcome Letter Book 2 ['HSW Private No.2' with key]
Date: 17 Apr 1888 - May 1890Reference: WF/E/01/01/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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A memoir of Thomas Harrison Burder, M.D. / by John Burder.
Burder, John, 1784?-1867.Date: [1844]- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: GO
Date: 1680-1922Reference: MS.9142- Pictures
The Anglo-Russian Hospital, Petrograd. Photograph album by and scrapbook by W.A. Propert, 1915-1917.
Propert, Walter Archibald.Date: 1915-1918Reference: 2000633i