Scarlet Gallery

Grove Military Hospital, Tooting Grove, Surrey

Children stand at the gates of the Grove Hospital at Tooting Grove, Surrey (now South London) during its First World War service as a military hospital. The Grove was one of five new hospitals opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in the 1890s for the treatment of infectious diseases such as scarlet fever and diphtheria. The site is now occupied by St George's Hospital

© Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection

Advert for Wulfings Formamint tablets 1913

Why you catch sore throats and how to cure and prevent it'. Germs from a public telephone in constant use, and railway carriages are favourite breeding grounds. An experiment on two glass plates were covered with a substance on which germs thrive, one plate being also treated with Formamint. The plate without Formamint showed an abundant growth of disease germs. You can prevent sore throats by sucking Formamint tablets. This has been proved beyond doubt - not alone by scientific tests. Date: 1913

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

German fashion of the late 15th century

German fashion of the late 15th century. Knights of the Kevernburg with their wives, holding armorial shields and pennants, Arnstadt A-F. Four wealthy burghers, Erhart Moringer, Erasmus Wielant, Georg Hanenkampel, Peter Paumfeld, in traditional costume from a privilege book in Ingolstadt, G-K. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by C. Regnier. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher

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