Stories
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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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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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Fake news and the flu
Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.
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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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Cholera prevention in Cornwall, 1832
Hocking, Samuel (fl.1832)Date: November 1832Reference: MS.8664
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Cholera: its origin, history, causation, symptoms, lesions, prevention, and treatment / By Alfred Stillé.
Stillé, Alfred, 1813-1900.Date: 1885
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Cholera : its origin, history, causation, symptoms, lesions, prevention, and treatment / by Alfred Stillé.
Stillé, Alfred, 1813-1900.Date: 1885
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Cholera morbus : its causes, prevention, and cure; with disquisitions on the contagious or non-contagious nature of this dreadful malady / by Sir Henry Halford [and others].
Date: 1831
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Cholera morbus : its causes, prevention, and cure; with disquisitions on the contagious or non-contagious nature of this dreadful malady / by Sir Henry Halford [and others].
Halford Henry, Sir bart., 1766-1844.Date: 1831