Stories
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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
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Befriending heavy breathers
Read the fascinating story behind the rare manual that helped volunteers on one of Britain’s first free telephone helplines to deal with masturbating callers.
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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
![Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0067887/full/420%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0009783/full/600%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0008334/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0009781/full/600%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0006927/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0008335/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
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Report of the Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder.Date: 1926- Books
Ninth report of the Commissioners in Lunacy, to the Lord Chancellor.
Great Britain. Lunacy Commission.Date: 1856- Books
A slavish bowing-down : the Lunacy Commission and the psychiatric profession / N. Hervey.
Hervey, Nicholas (Nicholas Bethell)
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Minutes of evidence taken before the Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder.Date: 1926
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Further report of the Commissioners in Lunacy, to the Lord Chancellor. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.
Date: 1847