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The idea of English medieval towns and cities as filthy, muddy and insanitary is here overturned in a pioneering new study. Carole Rawcliffe continues with her mission to clean up …
Essays address plague and disease in the fifteenth century, as manifested throughout Europe. Described as "a golden age of pathogens", the long fifteenth century was notable for a …
Details Thomas Trotter's important contributions, as a naval surgeon and after, to the eradication of scurvy and typhus, to the study of addiction, and to improved health and …
A history of the wide range of general and specialist hospitals associated with the University of Birmingham Medical School, set in the broader context of health care in …
A transcription of the notes made by a young doctor during his time working at a provincial general hospital. For most of his career W.G. Stutter [1815-77] was a respected general …
Traces the evolution of medical education at Barts from its foundation in 1123 to the college's merger with The London Hospital and Queen Mary & Westfield College in 1995. Medical …
This history of one particular place for "madness" covers changing approaches to insanity and treatments over two centuries. The Norfolk Lunatic Asylum opened in 1814 as a pioneer …