Stories
- Article
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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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
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The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
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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.
Catalogue
- Journals
Annual report of the Medical Research Committee.
Great Britain. Medical Research Committee.Date: 1915-1919- Books
An investigation into the epidemiology of phthisis in Great Britain and Ireland / [by John Brownlee].
Date: 1918- Books
Haemoglobin levels in Great Britain in 1943 (with observations upon serum protein levels) / by the Committee on Haemoglobin Surveys.
Date: 1945- Books
Report on the present state of knowledge concerning accessory food factors (vitamines) / compiled by a committee appointed jointly by the Lister Institute and the Medical Research Committee.
Committee upon Accessory Food Factors (Vitamines) (Great Britain)Date: 1919- Books
Nomenclature of fungi pathogenic to man and animals : names recommended for use in Great Britain / by the Medical Mycology Committee of the Medical Research Council.
Date: 1949