Health & Disease
Discover how Londoners have faced plagues, pandemics and illness with these objects, stories and blogs.
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Health & Disease
Health & Disease
The 900-year history of St Bartholomew’s Hospital
Caring for London on the same Smithfield spot since 1123
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
The Great Plague of 1665
An estimated 100,000 people died in London’s last major plague epidemic
Collections
Collections
From fox lungs to fuming pots: 17th-century flu remedies
Explore London Museum artefacts that reveal a strange yet fascinating history of healing
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Paintings, Prints & Drawings
Paintings, Prints & Drawings
The Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum (oil painting)
Withers, Alfred
C. 1915