Stories
- 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.
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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Powders, pennies and pains : pharmaceutical advertising 1880-1990 : an exhibition in the Modern Medicine reading room display cases in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : 30 June to 27 September 1997 / [Stephen Lowther].
Lowther, Stephen, 1955-Date: 1997
- Ephemera
- Online
Fennings' Hooping Cough Powders.
Date: [Between 1870 and 1879?]- Archives and manuscripts
Fennings Childrens Cooling Powders
Date: 1904-1950Reference: SA/FEN/C/9/2Part of: Fennings Pharmaceuticals- Archives and manuscripts
Fennings Childrens Cooling Powders
Date: early-mid 20th centuryReference: SA/FEN/C/8/3Part of: Fennings Pharmaceuticals- Archives and manuscripts
Fennings Adult Cooling Powders
Date: early-mid 20th centuryReference: SA/FEN/C/8/4Part of: Fennings Pharmaceuticals
