Stories
- Article
Surviving a flesh-eating disease
Nearly dying from a skin infection gave Scott Neill a chance to start again after an early life marked by grief and depression.
- Article
The shocking ‘treatment’ to make lesbians straight
Being a lesbian has never been a crime in the UK, but 50 years ago, some psychologists experimented with treatments to try to ‘cure’ women of their orientation. Find out what this involved.
- In pictures
A visual history of cancer
Cancer has a reputation as a modern disease, but these historical images show that it’s been part of our lives for centuries.
- In pictures
Sex and syphilis
Before antibiotics, syphilis unleashed centuries of misery, countered by desperate but largely useless remedies. With the spread of syphilis on the rise, it’s worth remembering what our forebears suffered.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
The Treatment of Infectious and Contagious Diseases by the Serum method, by "Civis mundi" Vol I
Date: c. 1898Reference: MS.8498Part of: The Treatment of Infectious and Contagious Diseases by the Serum method, by "Civis mundi"- Books
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Syllabus of lectures on the theory and practice of midwifery: Including The Pathology or general Doctrine of acute and chronic Diseases incident to Women and Children, with their Treatment and Cure. - For the clearer Demonstration of operative Midwisery (whether simply by the Hand, or Application of Instruments) the several Methods of assisting in laborious and preternatural Labours, will not only be described according to the most approved modern Practice, but likewise distinctly shewn by an artificial Representation of each difficult Case, upon Machines of a new Construction. The whole will be illustrated by such Anatomical Preparations as are applicable to each Lecture; with various Observations, extraordinary Cases, and necessary Cautions; but particularly, by real Labours. By John Leake, M. D. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London, and Physician to the Westminster Lying-in Hospital, At his House in Craven-Street in the Strand.
Leake, John, 1729-1792.Date: 1782- Archives and manuscripts
KilInc: Fungal Infections - Drug Treatment
Date: 1990Reference: SA/WHL/14/16Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Pictures
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A man with tuberculosis surrounded by a group of people: treatment of tuberculosis in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Division of Leprosy Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, ca. 2000.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 755367i- Books
Sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines 1982.
Date: 1982