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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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Bartholomaeus de Ripa Romea, De lapidibus, and other texts

Bartholomaeus de Ripa Romea, De lapidibus, and other texts Date: Mid 14th Century Reference: MS.116 ...
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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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The discovery of the temple of Isis at Pompeii, buried under pumice and other volcanic matter. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784. On Fabris's coloured prints for Hamilton's Campi phlegraei see B. Fothergill, Sir William Hamilton envoy extraordinary, New York 1969, pp. 138-143, and John Thackray, ...
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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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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.