Stories
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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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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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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A lecture on a healthy skin : delivered before the members of the Balloon Society of Great Britain at the Royal Aquarium, London / by James Startin.
Startin, James, 1851-1910.Date: 1885
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Programme and complete arrangements for this day : Friday, August 11th, 1882 ... / Royal Aquarium.
Date: 1882
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Royal Aquarium : Chang, the great Chinese giant : admission one shilling.
Date: [1880?]
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Chang, the Chinese giant : Brustad, the giant of Norway. Che-Mah, the Chinese Tom Thumb. Madaree, the real hindoo jadooger. And the midget prince 'Adonis' / Royal Aquarium, Westminster.
Date: [approximately 1880?]
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Royal Aquarium : Adonis, the African midgit on view with Wielands Realities.
Date: [1885?]