Formal deaf education in England started at the end of the 18th century started with an innovative school in London.

Gout became known as a fashionable disease of the rich and powerful, but has didits notoriety diminish the personal experiences of this painful condition?

Medical Register, Feb 1855 - March 1856, (of the Royal London militia or of a military hospital in London?) Date: 1855-1856 Reference: RAMC/193 ...

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] (London : Cassell & Company, limited, lith.) ...

Dalton-in-Furness (England). Urban District Council.

Credit: A handbook of ophthalmic science and practice / by Henry E. Juler. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be ...

Accounts of the massacre by Japanese invaders of patients and staff at the British Military Hospital (Alexandra Hospital) Singapore on 13-14 February 1942 ("The Alexandra Outrage")RAMC/840 Account by ...

Credit: The change of life in health and disease : a practical treatise on the nervous and other affections incidental to women at the decline of life / by Edward John Tilt. Source: Wellcome ...

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 ...

show credit information for image 'Geothermal hot spring landscape in Railroad Valley, Nevada, where a Canadian mining company is drilling a new hole in an effort to find large deposits of lithium.

show credit information for image 'Woking Convict Invalid Prison: a woman prisoner in solitary confinement.' In July 1859, the Superintendent of Mountjoy Female Prison, Dublin, wrote in desperation to ...