Stories
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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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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.
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Duelling doctors
An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.
Catalogue
- Books
The Registration of Infectious Disease / British Medical Association ; Parliamentary Bills Committee.
British Medical AssociationDate: 1879- Archives and manuscripts
British Medical Association: "Withdrawing and witholding treatment: a consultation paper from the BMA's Ethics Committee"
Date: 1998Reference: PP/IDD/D/4/1Part of: Iddon, Brian- Archives and manuscripts
Ethics of medical consultation
Date: 1905-1950Reference: SA/BMA/D.248-250Part of: British Medical Association- Books
Abortion time limits : a briefing paper from the British Medical Association / written by Veronica English, Rebecca Mussell.
English, VeronicaDate: [2005]- Books
Report On Local Legislation As To Infectious Diseases / by Ernest Hart ; British Medical Association ; Parliamentary Bills Committee.
Hart, Ernest, 1835-1898Date: 1880