Themes Salisbury Healthcare History

Black and white photo of tunnel with tiles and pipes

Why do we love mystery tunnel stories so much?

Black and white photo of buildings in a terrace

Memories of the Old Manor Tunnels

Colour photograph of Egyptian coffin in museum display

Memories of X-raying an Egyptian Mummy

colour photograph of historic prescription book, with ink handwriting

Lozenges, bloodletting, and the full moon

Oral history project: Common Cold Unit

colour photograph of a group of staff in 2 rows in front of blue building

Behind the trials: Everyday work of the Common Cold Unit

Cider in the snow

Close up text of Primitive Physick book

John Wesley & Salisbury

A colour photograph of 2 long tables laid up for lunch with bottles

There was no such thing as a typical day

A career in virus research

Letters from Isolation: A Mother’s Life Inside the Common Cold Unit, 1959

The Last Cold: A Volunteer’s Diary from 1989

Detail of historic portrait

Brodie’s bone studies

Colour aerial photograph showing large red brick house and town lawns

Hillcote House

black and white photograph of group of people looking at science experiment

A cheap holiday and a curious experiment

1 person in shorts and scientist in white gown and mask walk on grass next to hut

Thirty Feet Apart

Historic etching showing building of Salisbury Infirmary, flanked by 2 trees and semi circular forecourt

War, Welfare & Wallets: during the Napoleonic Era

page 1 of the letter

Staff at Salisbury Infirmary (1766–1864)

a printed table of food and diet dated 1848 Salisbury Infirmary patients

Feeding Body and Soul

Two pastel portraits by Margaret King