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Children in burns prevention campaigns

Whose responsibility is it to prevent accidental burns and scalds in the home? Shane Ewen’s research shows that it’s everyone’s concern.

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Building a dream in the garden suburbs

In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.

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Jim, the horse of death

Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.

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Booze and bad behaviour

Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.

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  • A working man with two children; advertising an exhibition in Essen on occupational health and accident prevention. Colour lithograph, 1925.
  • Novi profectus in historia electricitatis, post obitum auctoris ... ex Msto. ejus editi. Praemissa est commentatiuncula de vita et scriptis viri, de solidiori doctrina optime meriti / [by J.C. Gottsched, with dedicatory epistle by H.'s widow, Friderica Juliana].
  • De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius, cum J. Aldini dissertatione et notis. Acc. epistolae ad animalis electricitatis theoriam pertinentes / [Luigi Galvani].
  • De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius, cum J. Aldini dissertatione et notis. Acc. epistolae ad animalis electricitatis theoriam pertinentes / [Luigi Galvani].
  • De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius, cum J. Aldini dissertatione et notis. Acc. epistolae ad animalis electricitatis theoriam pertinentes / [Luigi Galvani].
  • The skull of the painter Raphael: frontal view. Lithograph by Engelmann after C.P. Mazer.
  • Head of "a backward boy" divided into four cerebral lobes: profile. Ink drawing with watercolour, c. 1900.
  • Electricity: condenser jars, an electro-static generator, and a vase with flowers. Gouache painting.
  • Mrs Prince, after surgical removal of a breast. Watercolour, 1841.
  • The human brain, divided according to Bernard Hollander's system of phrenology. Process print with pen and ink, c. 1902.
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