Stories
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Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles
Some people will use a dose of ginger to help with hangovers – but it hasn’t always been a friend to the thirsty.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co Product Leaflets: Kepler - Lutormone
Date: 1950s-1960sReference: WF/M/GB/40/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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An essay to prove the contagious character of malignant cholera ; with brief instructions for its prevention and cure / by Bernard M. Byrne.
Byrne, Bernard M. (Bernard Myles)Date: 1833- Archives and manuscripts
'Dartford Museum' - Prints: BW&Co Staff, Explorers
Date: c.1885-c.1980Reference: WF/M/I/DM/01/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Press Adverts - Dips and Livestock Remedies
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: Mar 1930 - 12 Jan 1943Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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An illustrated message about how AIDS spreads; an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
Date: Mar [19]93Reference: 677558i