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Graphic Gallery: Yellow

Yellow is for cleanliness, but also for fever and illness.

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Pain and the power of touch

As a new physiotherapist, Fiona Murphy quickly learned that her patients’ pain was unpredictable and very personal. But using the right words became the key to helping them.

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Two health centres, two ideologies

Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.

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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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  • Disinfection equipment, Kurasini, Tanzania: Thresh apparatus and disinfecting boiler. Photograph, 1905/1915.
  • Oesophagus and stomach from a case of poisoning by Burnett's disinfecting fluid
  • Plague in Cape Town: convicts cleansing and disinfecting infected buildings. Drawing by H. Johnson, 1891.
  • Plague in Cape Town: convicts cleansing and disinfecting infected buildings. Drawing by H. Johnson, 1891.
  • Plague in Cape Town: convicts cleansing and disinfecting infected buildings. Drawing by H. Johnson, 1891.
  • Plague apparatus from a lazaretto in Venice; a machine for disinfecting letters and papers. Photograph.
  • Disinfecting station: interior showing equipment and two African (?) men in western dress, Africa (?). Photograph, 1905/1925 (?).
  • Typhus prevention: (Indian?) soldiers having their kit disinfected in order to prevent typhus and relapsing fever. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Leaflet advertising Bromo paper toilet tissue manufactured by Diamond Mills Paper Company of 44 Murray Street, New York, probably about 1878 or early 1880s. The paper contained the "disinfectants and curatives" Bromo chloralum and carbolic acid "as to render its use not only a positive preventive of that most distressing and almost universal complaint, the Piles, but also a thorough deodorizer and disinfectant of the water closet." The paper had a watermark "Bromo" in every sheet.
  • A jester representing the disinfectant Papier d'Arménie scourges figures representing the infectious diseases cholera, typhoid, diphtheria and smallpox. Colour lithograph by A. Van Geleyn, ca. 1890.
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