Stories
- Article
How I cured my fear of vomiting
Emetophobia ruled every waking moment of Alex’s life. Until he came to realise he couldn’t live that way any more.
- In pictures
How we visualise viruses
Discover how images of the antigens that make us sick have evolved over time and been tailored to meet the demands of different epidemics.
- Article
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.
- Article
Illness and the influence of the stars
Could alien germs from space have caused major pandemics across the world? Taras Young investigates the ideas of a few unconventional scientists who believe this to be the case.
Catalogue
- Books
Germs, busy germs : [poem].
Date: 1882- Books
Germs and the man / by Justina Hill.
Hill, Justina H. (Justina Hamilton), 1893-Date: [1940], ©1940- Books
Germs and the spray / by John Duncan.
Duncan, John, -1899.Date: 1883- Ephemera
Germs and disease / notes and cartoons by G. Rutherford.
Rutherford, G.Date: 1959- Archives and manuscripts
Germs of Propaganda (Letter to the Editor, The Times)
Date: 2 Nov 1952Reference: PP/CPB/H.1/29Part of: Blacker, Carlos Paton FRCP (1895-1975)