Stories
- Article
The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.
- Article
The secret sting of cystitis
Agnes Arnold-Forster recounts her experiences of cystitis, explaining how this illness intersects with sexism, shame, and stigma from medical professionals.
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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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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Infection Control Nurses Association, ISIC '92, (3rd International Conference on Infection Control); outline scientific programme and correspondence
Date: 1992Reference: SA/HIS/F/5/14Part of: Hospital Infection Society- Archives and manuscripts
‘Infection Control: New Perspectives' (joint meeting of the International Federation of Infection Control and the Turkish Microbiological Society); announcement and correspondence
Date: 1992-1993Reference: SA/HIS/F/5/18Part of: Hospital Infection Society- Archives and manuscripts
‘Infection Control - Luxury or Necessity'(meeting of the Welsh Microbiology Association); programme
Date: October 1988Reference: SA/HIS/F/5/7Part of: Hospital Infection Society- Archives and manuscripts
Infection Control Nurses Association; Symposium programme, Newsletter no. 10, Journal of Infection Control Nursing, no. 13 and article by R J Challis, ‘Cost and Bacteriological Implications of Replacing Tea-Towels and Dishcloths with Paper’, Contact, 12 (Sept 1979
Date: 1979-1980Reference: SA/HIS/F/5/1Part of: Hospital Infection Society- Archives and manuscripts
Infection Control Yearbook 1991
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1991Reference: GC/253/A/42/7/8