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Patient power

Needle, a small London-based group, led the early fight for patient rights. Leona Letts reveals how they championed giving ...
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Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring ...

This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London. This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be ...
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The fall of Babylon; Cyrus the Great defeating the Chaldean army. Mezzotint by J. Martin, 1831, after himself, 1819.

Bible. O.T. Isaiah 13-14. Jeremiah 50-1. A large green serpent is coiled around a pillar in the centre. It may be the serpent/dragon mentioned in the apocryphal 'Bel and the Dragon', which was ...
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Reports of the Committee of Management and Medical Director for 1932 / Papworth Village Settlement.

Reports of the Committee of Management and Medical Director for 1932 / Papworth Village Settlement.Papworth Village Settlement (Cambridge, England) ...
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Crimean War: appalling conditions as seen in the interior of the Russian Hospital in Sebastopol. Wood engraving after E.A. Goodall, 1855.

[London] : Illustrated London News, 6 October 1855.
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A narrative of the life and death of Edward Chester, by his wife Elizabeth Chester

A narrative of the life and death of Edward Chester, by his wife Elizabeth Chester ...
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A Sicilian boy, head and shoulders, with a necklace of coins. Photograph by W. von Gloeden, 1900.

W. v. Gloeden Kunstverlag deponirt 1 Aug 1900 Taormina Sicilia Bears pencilled number on verso: 1735 The lettering is rubber-stamped on the verso Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin ...
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The drugtakers : the social meaning of drug use / Jock Young.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Sir William Paton's executors. Note: Formerly in the library of Sir William Paton ...
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[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster].

St. James, Westminster (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
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A treatise of the two sacraments of the Gospel, baptism, and the Lord's supper: according to the scriptures, and the doctrine of the fathers. By H. de Luzancy, B. D. Vicar of ...

Treatise of the two sacraments of the Gospel, baptism, and the Lord's supper: according to the scriptures, and the doctrine of the fathers. By H. de Luzancy, B. D. Vicar of Dover-Court, and Harwich ...
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Monographia syphilitica : a journal devoted to the treatment of diseases of the blood and skin by 'Succus alterans'. January, 1887 / edited by Geo. W. McDade.

Credit: Monographia syphilitica : a journal devoted to the treatment of diseases of the blood and skin by 'Succus alterans'. January, 1887 / edited by Geo. W. McDade. Source: Wellcome Collection.