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By day, Soho contains many worlds - the rag trade, the film business, high fashion and high art - but by night it presents its age-old face as London's pleasure hub, offering entertainment, intoxication and sex. A night stroll brings to life centuries of raucous thrill-seeking, and the medical characters who have always lurked in its shadow, some offering discreet cures for over-indulgence, others campaigning to cleanse the city of its filth. Go in the footsteps of William Hunter, John Snow and some less savoury characters to uncover the story of medicine and disease in the grubby heart of the West End.

With Mike Jay, editor of 'Medical London: City of diseases, city of cures'.

Please note that this walk starts at Tottenham Court Road tube station (Exit 4, Centre Point) and ends at Piccadilly Circus tube station.

This is an adapted version of a walk published in 'Medical London: City of diseases, city of cures'. For more on the book, visit the Medical London website.

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