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- Published on: 9 January 2022
- Published on: 9 January 2022History of Children's Hospitals - a growth area?Show More
Dear Editor,
Dr Goldboom has written an interesting piece on the evolution of children’s hospitals which deserves comment. He mentions Dickens’ support for Great Ormond Street in Our Mutual Friend in 1865. There is certainly a change on the deaths of Paul Dombey – tuberculosis and at home,(1848) and Little Nell, (1840) in the old Curiosity Shop of which Oscar Wilde wrote: “one must have a heart of stone to read t...
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