Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
- In pictures
The post-war adverts that tried to cure lonely women
Isolated housewives, lonely female office workers: while the 1950s saw the birth of a general concern about them, manufacturers also spotted an opportunity. Find out how advertising promised that products could salve solitude.
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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.
Catalogue
- Books
Medical officers of health and the sanitary servive of the Territorial Force / from a correspondent.
Date: 1914- Books
Medical officers of health, 1848 to 1855 : an essay in local history / by C. Fraser Brockington.
Brockington, Fraser, 1903-Date: 1957- Pictures
Medical officers tending the leg of a wounded reclined patient on board a hospital ship. Glass negative, ca. 1919.
Date: [1919]Reference: 586525i- Pictures
Medical officers tending to the head of a wounded reclining patient on baord a hospital ship. Glass negative, ca. 1919.
Date: [1919]Reference: 586526i- Pictures
Medical officers inspect male passengers arriving from an infected town, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.
Moss, C., Captain, active approximately 1897.Date: [1897?]Reference: 37873iPart of: Moss, C., Captain, fl. ca. 1897.