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The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with sheep grazing and people walking in the foreground. Coloured wood engraving by W. H. Prior after an earlier engraving.

The Historic Records held at Bethlem Museum of the Mind

Bethlem Museum of the Mind records the lives and experience and celebrates the achievements of people with mental health problems. Situated within the current day site of Bethlem Royal Hospital, the oldest psychiatric hospital in Europe, the Museum seeks to... Read more →

Published 18th November, 2021

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A black and white image of nurses wearing masks.

Licensed to access Pandemics, Society, and Public Health, 1517–1925

1517 1925

Edward Jenner inoculates patients. Cows are seen growing out of the arms of patients as the inoculation for smallpox came from giving the patient cowpox.

Licensed to access Essays and Dissertations of the Scottish Royal Medical Society, 1751–1801

1751 1970

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