Stories
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The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
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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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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
Catalogue
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Views on the prevention and treatment of typhoid fever / by Stephen Smith Burt.
Burt, Stephen Smith, 1850-1932.Date: 1889
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Crowds of people above a gold medal bearing the logo of WHO: preventing typhoid fever in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Sanofi Pasteur, ca. 2000.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 755363i
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Upon the properties of an antityphoid serum obtained from the goat / by Allan Macfadyen, M.D. ; (communicated by Dr. C.J. Martin, F.R.S. Received March 2, - read March 8, 1906.).
Macfayden, Allan, 1860-1907Date: 1906
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Ueber die Eigenschaften eines von Ziegen gewonnenen Antityphusserums / von Allan Macfadyen, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London.
Macfayden, Allan, 1860-1907Date: 1906
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Typhoid, the destroyer of armies, and its abolition ; The theory of air-borne typhoid in armies / by Leigh Canney.
Canney, Leigh.Date: 1901