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Why pandemic denial is nothing new

Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.

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The child whose town rejected vaccines

Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.

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How to design an HIV awareness campaign

Using carefully crafted, colourful graphics is one public health team’s creative approach.

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A brief history of ventilation

As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.

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  • Verstärktes Restitutions-Fluid für Pferde u. andere Haustiere.
  • Restitutions Fluid : Gebrauchsanweisung : man mischt 1 Teil dieses Fluids mit 1 Teil kalten Wasser ... / Apotheke zum heiligen Geist, STEYR, Kirchengasse 16 ; Mag. Ph. Otto Dunkl.
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  • Acriflavine 'B.D.' : has bee described by a physician as '...the finest antiseptic yet discovered'.
  • Armstrong's Family Health Salve : the great antiseptic healing ointment.
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