Stories
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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
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Guide dogs or good dogs from the Middle Ages
Medieval illustrations often show blind people, sometimes with dogs. But working out whether these were actually guide dogs involves a mix of detailed detective work and expert speculation.
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Lovesickness and ‘The Love Thief’
An 11th-century poem of love, lust and possibly gruesome death still resonates today.
Catalogue
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Vaccination and small-pox statistically considered / by E.J. Edwardes.
Edwardes, Edward Joshua.Date: 1896- Archives and manuscripts
Medicinal plants and drugs of Travancore
Waring, Edward John, 1819-1891.Date: c.1855Reference: MS.4973Part of: Waring, Edward John (1819-1891)- Archives and manuscripts
Charles Lamplugh Waring
Waring, Edward John, 1819-1891.Date: 1835-1839Reference: MS.4974Part of: Waring, Edward John (1819-1891)- Books
A handbook of uterine therapeutics / by Edward John Tilt.
Tilt, Edward John, 1815-1893.Date: 1864- Archives and manuscripts
Letter from Sir William Paton about the above items
Date: c.1956Reference: GC/68/3Part of: French, John Edward