Stories
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
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The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
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The blight of the ballooning blood vessels
In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.
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Press Adverts - Dips and Livestock Remedies
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: Mar 1930 - 12 Jan 1943Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd
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A man apparently with an STD looking alarmed as he holds up a sheet to cover his genital area; with three further anxious men and women with similar complaints to the right; a warning to seek treatment for STD's by the National AIDS Control Project in New Delhi. Colour lithograph, 1995.
Date: Dec [19]95Reference: 677170i- Books
Gastrointestinal infections in Southeast Asia III : food hygiene in the problem of gastrointestinal infections proceedings of the fifth SEAMIC seminar at the Tokyo Metropolitan Research Laboratory of Public Health, Tokyo, February 8-18, 1978 / editor in chief, Hideo Fukumi.
SEAMIC Seminar on Food Hygiene in the Problem of Gastrointestinal Infections (1978 : Tokyo, Japan)Date: 1978- Books
The Torbet system of diet described in the form of queries and replies which include instructions for use : Torbet products were established in 1908 the Torbet system of diet (purely vegetable and lactic) taken as an addition to one's food, provides a necessary part of the diet which nature intended, and which is vital to the welfare of the body, in the production of perfect health by the prevention of constipation and disease arising from bowel poisoning / The Torbet Lactic Oat Co., Ltd.
Torbet Lactic Oat Co., Ltd.Date: [1935?]- Books
Gastrointestinal infections in Southeast Asia, II : laboratory works and preventive measures : proceedings ... / editor in chief, Hideo Fukumi, editors ; Ko Hiraishi [and others].
SEAMIC Seminar 1976 : Tokyo)Date: 1977