Stories
- Article
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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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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Spanish flu and the depiction of disease
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed many millions more than World War I did. Find out why contemporary artistic depictions of its devastating impact are so rare.
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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Programme for "The Child" Symposium, University of Chicago
Date: 1966Reference: PENROSE/2/29/5Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Books
- Online
Neuro-fibromatosis of the tongue in a child : together with a note on the classification of incomplete and anomalous cases of Recklinghausen's disease / by F. Parkes Weber.
Weber, Frederick Parkes, 1863-1962.Date: [1910]- Archives and manuscripts
St. Lawrence's Hospital
Date: Oct 1962 - Feb 1963Reference: PENROSE/2/42/8/1/21Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
University College Hospital (St. Pancras Hospital)
Date: Sep 1963 - Oct 1963Reference: PENROSE/2/41/13/2/34Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Lees, D H
Date: Feb 1963 - Mar 1963Reference: PENROSE/2/42/8/1/10Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers