Stories
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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Our endless quest for eternal youth
From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Scroth Centre for the Treatment of Rheumatic Disease by Natural Therapeutics
Date: c.1950s-1970sReference: GC/220/5Part of: Cave, Sir Richard (1912-1988)- Archives and manuscripts
Emanuel, R, & Ross, K, "Pulmonary Hypertension in Rheumatic Heart Disease", reprint from Progress in Cardiovascular Disease, IX/5, pp. 401-413
Date: 1967Reference: GC/238/2/1/6Part of: Ross, Sir (James) Keith- Books
Stop rheumatic fever / prepared by the National Heart Institute in cooperation with the Council on Rheumatic Fever and Congenital Heart Disease of the American Heart Association.
Date: 1955- Books
The epidemiology of rheumatic fever / John R. Paul ; prepared with the assistance of an ad hoc Advisory Committee of the Council on Rheumatic Fever and Congenital Heart Disease of the American Heart Association.
Paul, John R. (John Rodman), 1893-1971.Date: 1957- Archives and manuscripts
'Rheumatic diseases - I Reiter's Syndrome'
Date: 1969-1974Reference: PP/EKC/B/49Part of: Cruickshank, Eric Kennedy (1914-2007)