Stories
- Article
The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
- Article
The island of unclaimed bodies
In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
Catalogue
- Journals
Collected reprints from the Department of Experimental Surgery of the New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]- Books
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Address delivered before the Alumni of the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York / [George Thomson Elliot].
Elliot, George Thomson, 1827-1871.Date: 1868- Journals
Studies from the Department of Physiology of Columbia University at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York : Reprints.
Date: 1897-1935- Books
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Synopsis of lectures upon diseases of the nervous system : delivered at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Medical Department of Columbia University, New York / by M. Allen Starr.
Starr, M. Allen (Moses Allen), 1854-1932.Date: [c.1904]- Books
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Brief history of the campaign against tuberculosis in New York City : catalogue of the tuberculosis exhibit of the Department of Health, City of New York, 1908.
New York (N.Y.). Department of Health.Date: [1908]