Stories
- Article
Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
- In pictures
The grape cure
When we bring someone in hospital a bunch of grapes, we don't expect the grapes to work a miraculous cure upon them. But throughout history, wondrous healing powers have been attributed to the humble grape.
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
- Article
Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Health resorts and utopia. Health resorts, state and social life, and periodical medical examination
Date: 1919-1937Reference: PP/FPW/B.139/4Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Archives and manuscripts
Health resorts 1896 Vol I
Date: 1896-1921Reference: PP/FPW/B.139/1Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Archives and manuscripts
Health resorts etc- Practitioner -1908
Date: 1908-1927Reference: PP/FPW/B.139/3Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Archives and manuscripts
Health resorts
Date: 1896-1937Reference: PP/FPW/B.139Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Books
- Online
Health resorts and their uses : being vacation studies in various health resorts / Yeo Isaac Burney.
Yeo, I. Burney (Isaac Burney), 1835-1914.Date: 1882