Stories
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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Anno secundo Georgii III. Regis. Cap. II. An act to repeal so much of an act passed in the first year of the reign of His present Majesty King George the Third, intituled, an act for the relief of insolvent debtors, as relates to creditors compelling prisoners charged in execution to deliver up their estates, and to such prisoners being thereupon discharged.
Great Britain.Date: 1761 [i.e. 1762]]- Books
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An Act for the relief of insolvent debtors; and of bankrupts, in certain cases.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1761?]- Books
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Anno decimo quarto Georgii II. Regis. An Act for appointing new commissioners and trustees for putting in execution an Act passed in the eighth year of the reign of her Late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for vesting the estate and effects of John Coggs, and John Dann, goldsmiths and co-partners, in trustees, for the speedier payment of their creditors, and for determining differences thereupon.
Great Britain.Date: 1740 [i.e. 1741]]- Books
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A bill, presented to the House of Lords by Lord Rawdon; intituled An act for amending the law of imprisonment on mesne process; and for better regulating the law and practice of bail; and for the relief of unfortunate, and the punishment of fraudulent insolvent debtors.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: [1793]- Books
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A bill for appointing Commissioners for taking, stating, and determining all the claims and demands of the creditors of the Corporation of the governor and company of undertakers for raising the Thames water in York-buildings, ...
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1735]