Stories
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Stop - have you a smokers cough?
Date: 1950sReference: SA/NPT/A/6/5/34Part of: National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, successor and associated bodies- Archives and manuscripts
Stop - have you a smokers cough?
Date: 1950sReference: SA/NPT/A/6/4/4/63Part of: National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, successor and associated bodies- Pictures
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Lettering urging the use of the handkerchief to prevent the spread of coughs and colds. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 24437i- Pictures
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Ways in which AIDS is not spread from shaking hands and hugging to mosquito and insect bites; an advertisement by the Directorate of Health Services in Manipur. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 677467i- Ephemera
'Immunise your child, see to it now - delay and you may regret it', Bill Simpson : Protect your child against polio, tetanus, diphtheria, measles and whooping cough : Best start during baby's first year : Visit your doctor or local clinic / Scottish Health Education Unit.
Date: 1972