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More Flavor: City Gem Blood, Guts, Children and Power

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For those strong of stomach and favouring the more gory side of medicine's history, have an eggnog and pop on down to the Wellcome Collection. This guided walk illustrates the district's controversial past, led by medical historians from UCL. Poo-poo the London Dungeons and choose the true stories that chart the city's rocky history of blood-lettings, anaestethic-free amputations, poverty-stricken children left on doorsteps and jowly aristocrats. See the dark side of institutional giants such as the Royal College of Surgeons, and discover the gritty beginnings of the Nation State at the Foundling Hospital. Meanwhile, draw back from the austere architecture and explore literary interpretations of medicine through Darwin and Woolf in this ramble across the old city.

– Oliver Spall

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