Stories
- Article
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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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
- Book extract
The science of why things spread
From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
Catalogue
- Books
Ebola : the history of the disease and its outbreaks / by Charles River Editors.
Charles River EditorsDate: [2014?]- Books
Healing the herds : disease, livestock economies, and the globalization of veterinary medicine / edited by Karen Brown and Daniel Gilfoyle.
Date: [2010], ©2010- Books
The filth disease : typhoid fever and the practices of epidemiology in Victorian England / Jacob Steere-Williams.
Steere-Williams, JacobDate: 2020- Videos
Children of the iron lung.
Date: 2000- Archives and manuscripts
Foot and Mouth Disease Related Documents
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1968-2002Reference: GC/253/A/18/6Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars