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The Great Ormond Street colour handbook of paediatrics and child health

Edited by Stephan Strobel, Stephen D Marks, Peter K Smith, Magdi H El Habbal, Lewis Spitz. Published by Manson Publishing, London, 2007, pp 640, £49.95 (paperback). ISBN 1-874545-27-8

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NOW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir! (Charles Dickens, Hard Times)

Charles Dickens was not only a neighbour of Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) but also one of its first celebrity supporters and a friend of Dr Charles West, the inspiration behind the hospital. Dickens publicised GOSH in his popular . . . [Full text of this article]