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 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 poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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Report from the Select Committee on Patent Medicines : ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 4th August, 1914.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Patent Medicines.Date: 1914- Books
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Specification of Peter Harrower and John Chiene Stuart : spray producer.
Harrower, Peter.Date: 1868- Books
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Specification of James Darsie Morrison : dentistry.
Morrison, James Darsie.Date: 1865- Books
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Specification of John Rose : apparatus for applying heat, cold, and other agents in medicine and surgery.
Rose, John.Date: 1858- Books
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Specification of James Darsie Morrison : production of anaesthesia.
Morrison, James Darsie.Date: 1858