Stories
- Article
Why pandemic denial is nothing new
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.
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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.
- Interview
How to design an HIV awareness campaign
Using carefully crafted, colourful graphics is one public health team’s creative approach.
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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.
Catalogue
- Books
A handbook of antiseptics / by Henry Drysdale Dakin and Edward Kellogg Dunham.
Dakin, H. D. (Henry Drysdale), 1880-1952.Date: 1918- Archives and manuscripts
M0008723: Patients outside a military hospital gargling with antiseptic
Date: 10 December 1942Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/76/32Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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Des antiseptiques : thèse pour le doctorat en médecine, présentée et soutenue le 25 août 1865 / par Louis Coste.
Coste, Louis.Date: 1865- Books
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La thérapeutique antiseptique / par E. Trouessart ; avec une preface par le Dr Dujardin-Beaumetz.
Date: [1892]- Books
Disinfectants, their values and uses / [William Edward Finch].
Finch, William Edward.Date: 1958