Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
Diagnosed bipolar, prescribed lithium
In the first part of a series looking into lithium, Laura Grace Simpkins recounts the beginning of her troubled relationship with this mysterious drug.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Blood
Discover the history, mythology and taboos around blood and menopause, and hear from some contemporary voices about their experiences of periods and the onset of menopause.
Catalogue
- Journals
Drug education journal of Australia.
Date: 1987-1991- Books
Journal of studies on alcohol. Supplement No. 7 November 1975, Drug interactions ; the effects of alcohol and Meprobamate applied singly and jointly in human subjects.
Date: 1975- Books
Journal of clinical psychology. Monograph supplement, Dictionary of drug associations to heroin, benzedrine, alcohol, barbiturates and marijuana / C. A. Haertzen and N. T. Hooks.
Haertzen, C. A.Date: 1973- Pictures
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Women eject a drunk and publican from a bar in a crusade against drunkenness. Wood-engraving by A. Joliet, c. 1875, after Castelli.
Castelli.Date: 1875Reference: 26056i- Pictures
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Boer War: thirsty ambulance men queuing up at a beer tent. Process print by Swain after F. Dadd after A. Lindsay Twite.
Twite, A. Lindsay.Reference: 22534i