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

Communicating with hand signs has a long history. Researcher Jude Seal examines the evidence for signing in Medieval Europe ...

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] ...

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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 ...

Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India.

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

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

Licence: Public Domain Mark Credit: Anecdotes sur les Indiens de l'Amérique du Nord, leurs mœurs et leurs habitudes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Secret remedies : what they cost and what they contain / based on analyses made for the British Medical Association.