Stories
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Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
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Spanish flu and the depiction of disease
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed many millions more than World War I did. Find out why contemporary artistic depictions of its devastating impact are so rare.
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The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
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The power of unicorns
Discover the unlikely connection between pharmaceuticals and unicorns.
Catalogue
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Pharmacopoeia Bartleiana, or, Bartlet's gentleman farrier's repository, of elegant and approved remedies for the diseases of horses / in two books, containing, I. the surgical; II. the medical part of practical farriery : also, directions for the proper treatment of post chaise and other horses after violent exercise ... To which are now added, Mr. Clover's elegant and useful machine for securing the broken legs of horses without slinging; also, Mr. Goodall's pneumatic engine, for fumigating horses with broken wind, or bad coughs.
Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772.Date: 1773- Books
On a horse disease in India known as surra, probably due to a haematozoon / by G. Evans.
Evans, Griffith, 1835-1935.Date: 1881- Books
Hippopathology: a systematic treatise on the disorders and lameness of the horse; with their modern and most approved methods of cure; embracing the doctrines of the English and French veterinary schools.... / By William Percivall.
Percivall, William, 1792-1854.Date: 1834-1852- E-journals
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Journal of equine veterinary science
Date: [©1981]-- Archives and manuscripts
Veterinary Miscellany
Date: 19th CenturyReference: MSS.7159-7162