Stories
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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
- Book extract
My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Press Adverts - Dips and Livestock Remedies
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: Mar 1930 - 12 Jan 1943Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Dr. Foote's home cyclopedia of popular medical, social and sexual science : embracing his new book on health and disease, with recipes, treating of the human system, hygiene and sanitation - causes, prevention, cure, and home treatment of chronic diseases, including private words for both sexes, and 250 practical recipes also embracing plain home talk, on love, marriage, and parentage a free and earnest discussion of human, social, and sexual relations in all ages and countries, marriage systems, defects and their remedies, human temperaments and adaptations / by Edward B. Foote.
Foote, Edward B. (Edward Bliss), 1829-1906Date: 1902- Pictures
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People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.
Trye-Maison, G. de, active approximately 1910.Date: [1910?]Reference: 460155i- Pictures
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A woman's bare foot treading on the shoe of a man with two skulls touching above with the word 'AIDS'; a warning about the importance of safe sex and the dangers of AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1995.
Date: 1995Reference: 677078i- Pictures
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A comparative advertisement for the benefits of Stimorol chewing gum and condoms featuring a figure standing far left blowing a bubble with one foot resting against the picture border; he looks out at a landscape featuring an eye, a lake, a volcano spurting out hearts with two people running towards each other, and a pair of lips; with a packet of 'stimorol' chewing gum next to a condom in the sky. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 675069i