Stories
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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.
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A message from my skin
As wildfires threatened Seattle, resident Sydney Baker experienced corresponding flares of acne and rashes. Her skin was telling her something about the health of the world around her.
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
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Is your job bad for your teeth?
Some surprising occupations pose hidden risks to dental health. Could your ivories be in particular peril?
Catalogue
- Ephemera
- Online
Build 'em on bread / The Federation of Bakers.
Date: [1993?]- Books
Facts about bread / The Federation of Bakers.
Date: 1989- Books
Turog bread : the bread of health / [Spillers & Bakers, Ltd].
Spillers & Bakers, Ltd.Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]- Ephemera
- Online
Save time... add flavor with Bond Bakers Krums / [General Baking Company].
General Baking Company.Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
M0003413: "A cause of mill fever" / M0003413EB: "Guarding against "Bakers' Itch"
Date: 14 March 1933Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/27/98Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive