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Florence Nightingale: the Lady with the Lamp: the common soldier's saviour, the ideological leader of nursing reform, and a pioneering social reformer besides, Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) is arguably the most famous Victorian after Queen Victoria herself. Source: BBC
The earliest physical evidence of smallpox is the pustular rash on the mummified body of Pharaoh Ramesses V of Egypt, who died in 1157 BC.
Carry on Doctor (1967): directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Frankie Howard, Kenneth Williams, Sid James, Barbara Windsor and the rest of the Carry On crew. Plot Summary: The popular Dr Kilmore is sacked after being discovered in a compromising position on the roof of the nurses' home... Source: IMDb
4.7 million: number of people who died throughout the world from respiratory infections, including pneumonia, influenza, and whooping cough, in 1999. Read more
Leech: a fat worm which lives in wet places and fastens itself onto the bodies of humans and animals to take their blood. “These friendly Draculas help save amputated body parts”. Source: University of Missouri Health Care. Read more
In Sickness And Health by The Gathering
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Yams for Health
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PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English-language dictionary. Source: Word Oddities
Calling the Doctor by John Wesley Holloway. Read poem
09 December 2003: signing of an historic agreement between pharmaceutical companies and anti-AIDS campaigners, which opened the gates for generic anti-AIDS medicine to be made available across sub-Saharan Africa. Read more
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