Themes Salisbury Healthcare History

colour photograph of historic prescription book, with ink handwriting

Lozenges, bloodletting, and the full moon

Close up text of Primitive Physick book

John Wesley & Salisbury

Montage images of xrays for archaeology

In your bones

Black and white photograph of hospital ward

Post epidemic years

Photograph of a group of cows

What does it mean?

Black and white photograph of microscope image

Discovering Coronavirus

Black and white photograph showing a card game

Clinical trials at The Common Cold Unit

Text taken from an old medical report

Public Health & Epidemics

The sick & needy shall not always be forgotten - Infirmary motto

The sick and needy…

Entry from 1833 commenting on the outbreak of Erysipelas

Historic treatments

View shows flood water right in front of hospital and along Fisherton Street

Floods and meningitis outbreak

Letter asking if Infirmary prepared to establish an Orthopaedic department

Physiotherapy treatment is developed

Aerial view of Common Cold Unit buildings

Harvard Hospital – Common Cold Unit