Stories
- Article
Our endless quest for eternal youth
From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
- Article
Colonialism and the origins of skin bleaching
The widespread practice of skin bleaching was heavily influenced by the Western colonisation and slavery of African and South Asian countries. Ngunan Adamu explores this toxic history.
- Article
Are doctors medical detectives?
Do doctors really identify medical conditions in the same way that detectives solve crimes? Neurologist Jules Montague makes her diagnosis.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
"Arsenic poisoning"
Date: 1960s-1970sReference: PP/RJH/F.1/21CPart of: Hetherington, Robert J- Archives and manuscripts
'The Systemic Treatment of Arsenic Poisoning with BAL (2, 3 -Dimercaptopropanol)', Harry Eagle, Senior Surgeon, US Public Health Service, Journal of Venereal Disease Information, vol 27, pp 114-121
Date: May 1946Reference: PP/RHT/B/1/15Part of: Thompson, Professor Robert Henry Stewart (1912-1998)- Archives and manuscripts
'Clinical Uses of 2, 3-Dimercaptopropanol (BAL) One: The Systemic Treatment of Experimental Arsenic Poisoning', Harry Eagle, Harold Magnuson and Ralph Fleischman, Journal of Clinical Investigation, vol XXV, no 4 pp 451-466
Date: July 1946Reference: PP/RHT/B/1/16Part of: Thompson, Professor Robert Henry Stewart (1912-1998)- Archives and manuscripts
'The Systemic Treatment of 227 cases of Arsenic Poisoning with 2, 3 Dimercaptopropanol (BAL)', Harry Eagle and Harold J Magnuson, American Journal of Syphilis, Gonorrhoea and Venereal Diseases, vol 30, no 5, pp 420-411
Date: September 1946Reference: PP/RHT/B/1/19Part of: Thompson, Professor Robert Henry Stewart (1912-1998)- Archives and manuscripts
'The Treatment of Acute Gold and Arsenic Poisoning Use of BAL (2, 3-Dimercaptopropanol, British Anti-Lewisite)', Abraham Cohen, Joel Goldman and Alfred W Dubbs, Journal of the American Medical Association, vol 133, pp 749-752
Date: 15 March 1947Reference: PP/RHT/B/1/23Part of: Thompson, Professor Robert Henry Stewart (1912-1998)