Wednesday, September 29, 2010

When next in London you may want to.........

This is a free iphone app which has been developed by the Wellcome Institute library to accompany the book Medical London: city of diseases, city of cures / Richard Barnett (edited by) Mike Jay.

The tour can be downloaded as an iphone app or viewed online with associated maps and recordings. It offers a fascinating 3 mile walk covering the Bloomsbury area which focuses upon characters, diseases and cures associated with London medical history.