Stories
- In pictures
A medical history of smoking, from cure to killer
Today smoking is seen publicly as a deadly vice, privately perhaps as more of a guilty pleasure. Follow tobacco’s journey over the centuries from medical remedy to killer carcinogen.
- Article
A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
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Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Galal - Giacobini
Date: 1940-1984Reference: PP/MLV/C/7/6Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 43. 'WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2009 - 2012Reference: GC/253/A/43Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence with WHO and FCTC
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2009 - 2011Reference: GC/253/A/43/7Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
General Correspondence
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2009 - 2012Reference: GC/253/A/43/1Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Transcripts
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2010 - 2012Reference: GC/253/A/43/8Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars