Stories
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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
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Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
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Losing touch
In these pandemic times, when touch has become taboo, Agnese Reginaldo explores the importance of physical contact to our wellbeing.
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
Catalogue
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Sex education for people with disabilities - mental/physical
Date: 1966 - 2001Reference: SA/FPA/C/E/16/6/11Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
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C Macfie Campbell, 'The sub-normal child - a study of the children in a Baltimore school district' (National Committee for Mental Hygiene)
Date: 1917Reference: PP/ADD/K/3/1Part of: Robina Addis (1900-1986): archives- Books
Medicology, or home encyclopedia of health : a complete family guide abounding in practical household information on the structure and functions of the human body, the laws of hygiene, diet, accidents and emergencies, accessory treatments and remedies, air and exercise, sanitary house-building, duties of mothers, car of children, art and science of nursing and cooking, home administration of medicines / by Joseph G. Richardson, William H. Ford, C.C. Vanderbeck ; managing editor, James P. Wood.
Richardson, Joseph Gibbons, 1836-1886.Date: 1906- Books
Schulen und Schulgesundheitspflege in Nürnberg : Festschrift dem 1. Internationalen Kongreß für Schulhygiene in Nürnberg vom 4. - 9. April 1904 gewidmet vom Ortsausschuß.
Date: 1904- Books
The state of the world's children 2001 : [early childhood] / Carol Bellamy.
Date: 2001