A doctor’s eye view of the great fire of London: 350 years ago: Battling with Flames, the plague and noxious fumes – 1666 At the Royal College of Physicians, London, until 16th December, To fetch out the fire: reviving London 1666, marks the 350th anniversary of the devastation of the nation’s capital, taking a doctor’s […]
Rebecca Wallersteiner visits a new art exhibition at the Sigmund Freud Museum, London which celebrates 160 years since the birth of the father of psychoanalysis and his complex family life 160 years after Sigmund Freud’s birth, today’s artists still remain fascinated by the father of psychoanalysis. From 30th September, The Freud Museum, London, will launch […]
Rebecca Wallersteiner reviews ‘Fighting Fit’ a new World War II Medical History Book, by medical historian Laura Dawes – which explores how the nation’s health improved during England’s darkest hours At the beginning of the Second World War, medical experts predicted epidemics of physical and mental illness on the home front. Rationing would decimate the […]
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