Stories
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The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
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Sick of the theatre
What makes the stage a good place to share real-life experiences of ill health?
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The solidarity of sickness
Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.
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When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
Catalogue
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Cooking for the sick and convalescent : a textbook of dietetics / by Nell Heaton and V.H. Mottram.
Heaton, Nell (Nell St. John), 1899-Date: [1951]- Books
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A handbook of invalid cooking : for the use of nurses in training-schools, nurses in private practice, and others who care for the sick containing explanatory lessons on the properties and value of different kinds of food, and recipes for the making of various dishes / by Mary A. Boland.
Boland, Mary A., 1852-Date: 1899- Books
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The White House cookbook : a comprehensive cyclopedia of information for the home; containing cooking, toilet, and household recipes, menus, dinner-giving, table etiquette, care of the sick, health suggestions, facts worth knowing, etc. / by Hugo Ziemann and Mrs. F.L. Gilette.
Ziemann, Hugo.Date: 1903- Books
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The Codicil to "my will" for the healthy and the sick : containing chapters on the anatomy and care of the human body, gymnastic exercises, first help in accidents, cooking recipes, medicinal plants and the cure of diseases.
Kneipp, Sebastian, 1821-1897.Date: 1897- Books
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The art of cooking for invalids in the home and the hospital / by Florence B. Jack.
Jack, Florence B.Date: 1903