Stories
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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Seeds for the future
Indigenous groups have a key role as guardians of biodiversity, and their knowledge could help us all preserve our world. To survive, we all need to collaborate, reject prejudice, and share what we know.
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Fake news and the flu
Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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'The story of puerperal fever 1800 - 1950', British Medical Journal, Feb 4 1956
Date: 1956Reference: PP/COL/D.14Part of: Colebrook, Leonard, FRS, FRCOG, FRCS (1883-1967), bacteriologist- Books
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Views on the prevention and treatment of typhoid fever / by Stephen Smith Burt.
Burt, Stephen Smith, 1850-1932.Date: 1889- Books
Recent researches concerning the etiology, propagation, and prevention of yellow fever, by the United States Army Commission / by Walter Reed.
Reed, Walter, 1851-1902.Date: 1902- Books
Report on an inquiry into the nature, causes, and prevention of splenic fever, quarter-evil, and allied diseases : made at the Brown Institution / by W.S. Greenfield.
Greenfield, W. S. (William Smith), 1846-1919.Date: 1880- Books
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Report on an inquiry into the nature, causes, and prevention of splenic fever, quarter-evil, and allied diseases : made at the Brown Institution / by W.S. Greenfield.
Greenfield, W. S. (William Smith), 1846-1919.Date: 1880