Stories
- Article
Are you still nursing?
Julia Martins might get the side-eye for breastfeeding a three-year-old in the UK but, as she explains, examples from history, as well as the cultural norms of Brazil, where she grew up, are firmly on the side of extended nursing.
- Article
The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
- Article
The work of wet-nursing
Many of us know that in the past, babies were sometimes nourished by wet-nurses. But, perhaps surprisingly, the practice continues today – and the milk recipients are not only babies.
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Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Brentwood: History of blood transfusion: Display Board 5(b): early 20th century innovation in blood collection
Date: late 20th centuryReference: SA/HHC/D/5/2/6Part of: Harrison-Howell Blood Transfusion Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Ledger - MISSING
Date: Early 20th centuryReference: SA/QNI/G.1/3/1Part of: Queen's Nursing Institute- Archives and manuscripts
History 1 - Pioneers
Date: Late 19th century-mid 20th centuryReference: SA/MWF/C.1-5Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Letters, etc. - new Marie Curie unit at Mount Vernon, May 1968, Dr Dickson's History of Marie Curie
Date: 20th centuryReference: SA/MWF/C.42Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
'Medical History correspondence' re Hare's paper "New Light on the History of Penicillin"
Date: mid 20th century - late 20th centuryReference: PP/HAR/C.27Part of: Hare, Ronald (1899-1986), bacteriologist