Wealthier consumptive patients had long been directed to salubrious locations such as seaside resorts or spa towns to escape ...

Our new exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.

1 volume 8 ll., 13 ll. 4to. 19 × 151/2 cm., 23 × 18 cm. The original MS. is bound in blind-stamped morocco: the transcript is unbound. Pasted inside the upper cover is the armorial book-plate of [Sir] ...

Credit: On a model sanatorium for consumptives / by Sir Lauder Brunton. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original ...

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Galen on anatomical procedures : de Anatomicis administrationibus / translation of the surviving books with introduction and notes by Charles Singer.

In the five centuries since Europeans were introduced to tobacco, smoking has generated considerable controversy. This gallery tracks shifting views on smoking and health, from life-saving stimulant ...

How do you avoid catching the plague? Smoke constantly. Carry a sponge soaked in vinegar. Hang oranges studded with cloves around your house. This was the best medical advice available circa 1665, as ...

In the final year of the First World War a deadly pandemic spread rapidly around the world. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918–19 infected up to a third of the world’s population and killed up to 100 ...

In 1950, an American journalist popularised the term ‘brainwashing’, arguing that a new amalgam of technology, medicine and ideology was allowing an onslaught on people’s minds. In this abridged ...