Stories
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How I cured my fear of vomiting
Emetophobia ruled every waking moment of Alex’s life. Until he came to realise he couldn’t live that way any more.
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People against pollution
Alice Bell reflects on what happens when communities help solve environmental problems, and whether citizen science can help fight industrial pollution today.
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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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Illness and the influence of the stars
Could alien germs from space have caused major pandemics across the world? Taras Young investigates the ideas of a few unconventional scientists who believe this to be the case.
Catalogue
- Journals
The Journal of the American Association for Contamination Control.
American Association for Contamination Control.Date: [1962-[1964]- Archives and manuscripts
Radioactive Contamination of Air, Water, and Food - Introductory Remarks; Royal Society of Health
Date: 20 Jul 1959Reference: PP/FGS/E/11/59Part of: Spear, Frederick Gordon- Archives and manuscripts
'Methylene Blue Tablet Contamination': Correspondence and papers re possible infection of Methylene Blue Tablets with bacteria, 1938
Date: 1938Reference: PP/GSW/B/49Part of: Wilson, Sir Graham Selby- Archives and manuscripts
H L Cadwallader, C R Bradley and G A L Ayliffe, ‘Bacterial Contamination and Frequency of Changing Ventilator Circuitry'
Date: Late 20th centuryReference: SA/HIS/F/5/25Part of: Hospital Infection Society- Archives and manuscripts
'Lethal Contamination of Rats with Lewisite treated with D19 Ointment' Research item no 21, report no 70, RHST
Date: 24 March 1943Reference: PP/RHT/B/2/20