Stories
- In pictures
How an animation educated the army
In a 1940s cartoon intended to persuade US troops to take malaria medication, the makers pitted a clodhopping soldier against a wily mosquito. If only Private SNAFU had followed the government’s advice.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
- Article
Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
- Article
Designing better mental health wards
Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.
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Catalogue
- Journals
- Online
Christian education
Date: [-1952]
- Pictures
- Online
The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the Woman's Christian Temperance Union stand. Photograph, 1904.
Date: 1904Reference: 572343iPart of: 1904 World's Fair (or Louisiana Purchase Exposition), St. Louis.
- Books
- Online
A collection of recipes for the use of special diet kitchens in military hospitals / prepared and published under the auspices of the U.S. Christian Commission by Annie Wittenmyer.
Wittenmyer, Annie, 1827-1900.Date: 1864- Books
Ebony & ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities / Craig Steven Wilder.
Wilder, Craig StevenDate: 2013- Books
Law reform and human reproduction / edited by Sheila A.M. McLean.
Date: [1992], ©1992