Stories
- Article
Heating up and drying out
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
- In pictures
Herbal medicines and the early modern menopause
Held responsible for their own “rebellious distempers” – or menopausal symptoms – women had no choice but to keep quiet and resort to unpalatable concoctions in the hope of relief, as Julia Nurse explains.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Distemper Therapeutic Antiserum (Mixed)
Date: 1959Reference: WF/M/PL/097Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Distemper vaccine: correspondence between WPRL and veterinary surgeons regarding particular cases
Date: 1931-1939Reference: WF/WPRL/15Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Distemper experiment: "To test the safety and efficacy of Laidlaw and Dunkin's distemper vaccine as supplied by the Wellcome Laboratories, England"
Date: 1929-1933Reference: WF/WPRL/14Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Canine Distemper
Date: c. 1929-1951Reference: WF/M/H/01/14Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Canine Distemper Antiserum
Date: 1958Reference: WF/M/PL/049Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd