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The capital city's rich history of disease and medicine.
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The UK’s first hospital for sick children
Pioneering founders of the School of Medicine for Women
Site of amputation without anaesthetic
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Resting place of Daniel Defoe, author of Journal of the Plague Year
Site of the meat market and 12th Century priory hospital
Floating treatment for sailors
The story of the Broadwick Street pump handle
A microclimate by the Thames
Thomas Coram’s home for abandoned children