Stories
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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
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Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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Recipe Book, 18th and 19th Century
Date: late 18th century to early 19th centuryReference: MS.7978- Archives and manuscripts
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Vol. 2. Male and female patients admitted March 1847-May 1850
Camberwell House AsylumDate: mid 19th century - late 19th centuryReference: MS.6220Part of: Camberwell House Asylum- Books
Médecins, malades et société dans la France du XIXe siècle / Jacques Léonard ; textes réunis et présentés par Claude Bénichou ; avant-propos de François Lebrun ; préface de Jean-Pierre Peter.
Léonard, Jacques, 1935-Date: 1992- Pictures
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A man dressed in absurd protective clothing against the cholera epidemic. Etching, c. 1832.
Date: 1832Reference: 16428i- Books
In sickness and in health : medicine and health care in 19th century French prints a salute to the New Jersey pharmaceutical industry The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 10-August 19, 1984 / by Patricia Eckert Boyer.
Boyer, Patricia Eckert.Date: [1984], ©1984