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The history of today . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Spanish Flu pandemic . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Diversity in nursing

In pictures: Diversity in nursing

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Victorian medicine . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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‘Quacks’: the terrors and theatrics of Victorian medicine . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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History quiz – surgeons and Mary, Queen of Scots . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The operation

John Hunter and the horrors of 18th-century surgery

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History quiz – Anglo-Saxons, Bright’s disease and the Byzantine army . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving from Harvey's seminal work showing blood flowing through the veins of the lower arm. (SSPL/Getty Images)

A giant leap for mankind: William Harvey reveals the circulation of the blood

The Franciscans treating victims of the plague, miniature from La Franceschina, c1474, codex by Jacopo Oddi. Perugia, Biblioteca Capitolare (Library). (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

The hospital experience in medieval England

16th century engraving depicting a man with leprosy

Q&A How did doctors treat leprosy?

A group of girls taking a bath as part of a contest to see who can wash the fastest.

General prehistory

Q&A How old is bathing?

Chinese plague

Q&A What was the Third Plague pandemic?

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Photo of female cyclist in 1885

Q&A Were there health scares caused by new technology in the past? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Man smoking a pipe, early 17th century

Q&A When was tobacco first thought to be dangerous?