Stories
- Article
How slums make people sick
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
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Air of threat
Novelist Chloe Aridjis vividly describes the suffocating atmosphere of Mexico City, as a combination of topography, crowded neighbourhoods, and reckless political diktats create a downward spiral.
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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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Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS): archives
British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS)Date: Late 19th century-2018Reference: SA/BSR- Archives and manuscripts
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930.Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.8744- Pictures
- Online
A life in 24 silhouettes of Jan Kwak, a successful quack-doctor. Process print after N. Bodenheim, c. 1900.
Bodenheim, Nelly, 1874-1951.Reference: 17777i- Books
Sense of humors : the human factor in the history of medicine / Luca Borghi.
Borghi, Luca, 1962-Date: [2022]- Archives and manuscripts
Photographs
Date: c 1980Reference: WF/C/M/H/37/09Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd