Stories
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
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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
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League of Nations Health:list of publications
Date: 1938Reference: RAMC/2063/4Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
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League of Nations Union
Date: 1925-1938Reference: PP/AEM/A.313Part of: Mourant, Arthur Ernest (1904-1994)- Archives and manuscripts
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League of Nations Union
Date: 1939-1941Reference: PP/AEM/A.314Part of: Mourant, Arthur Ernest (1904-1994)- Archives and manuscripts
League of Nations
Date: 1923-1938Reference: RAMC/2063/1-27Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
League of Nations. Includes League of Nations Union London Regional Federation
Date: 1932-1933Reference: WTI/RST/D/8Part of: Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene