Health & Disease
Discover how Londoners have faced plagues, pandemics and illness with these objects, stories and blogs.
Top-Results
Top-Results
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
The Great Plague of 1665
An estimated 100,000 people died in London’s last major plague epidemic
Science & Technology
Science & Technology
John Snow: Cholera & the Broad Street pump
Sure that the deadly disease spread through water, Snow traced a cholera outbreak to a Soho water pump
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
