Stories
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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The present method of inoculating for the small-pox. To which are added, some experiments instituted with a view to discover the effects of a similar treatment in the natural small-pox. By Thomas Dimsdale, M.D.
Dimsdale, Thomas, 1712-1800.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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A direct method of ordering and curing people of that loathsome disease, the small-pox : teaching the common sort of people (to whom the care of the sick is for the most part committed) how to go thorow their business with much more safety ... : as also how to prevent the usual deformity of marks and scars ... for the benefit of all, but especially the poor / being the twenty years practical experience and observations of John Lamport, alias, Lampard.
Lamport, JohnDate: 1685- Books
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Hactenus inaudita, or, Animadversions upon the new found way of curing the small pox.
Date: 1663- Books
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A defensatiue against the plague : contayning two partes or treatises: the first, shewing the meanes how to preserue vs from the dangerous contagion thereof: the second, how to cure those that are infected therewith. Whereunto is annexed a short treatise of the small poxe: shewing how to gouerne and helpe those that are infected therewith. Published for the loue and benefit of his countrie by Simon Kellwaye Gentleman.
Kellwaye, SimonDate: 1593- Books
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Disputatio medica inauguralis, de variola; quam, annuente summo numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, D. Georgii Baird, SS. T. P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti; necnon Amplissimi Senatus Academici Consensu; Et Nobilissimae Facultatis Medicae Decreto; pro gradu doctoris, summisque in Medicina Honoribus ac Privilegiis rite et Legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Duncanus Forbes, A.M. Ex Agro Atholiensi, Scotus. Ad diem 24. Junii, hora locoque solitis.
Forbes, Duncanus, M.D.Date: MDCCC. [1800]