Stories
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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
Catalogue
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Report by Mr. Arthur Pickels on visit to the Amazon River, Panama, Cuba, &, for the purpose of investigating yellow fever and malaria.
Pickels, Arthur.Date: 1911- Journals
Minutes of meetings held during ... [and] correspondence ... relating to medical research / Colonial Medical Research Committee.
Great Britain. Colonial Medical Research Committee.- Books
Descriptions of the new mosquitoes collected by Dr. Graham in Ashanti / by Fred V. Theobald.
Theobald, Frederick. V. (Frederick Vincent), 1868-1930.Date: 1909- Journals
Minutes of meetings held during ... [and] correspondence ... relating to medical and health matters / Colonial Advisory Medical Committee.
Great Britain. Colonial Advisory Medical Committee.- Journals
Minutes of meetings held during ... [and] correspondence ... relating to medical and sanitary matters / Colonial Advisory Medical and Sanitary Committee.
Great Britain. Colonial Advisory Medical and Sanitary Committee.