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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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
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Designing better mental health wards
Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.
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The family food of a kebab van man
Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.
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Two travellers and a patient on a stretcher travel towards the baths at Cauquenes, Chile. Coloured lithograph by G. Scharf.
Paroissien, General.Reference: 16476i- Pictures
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A black and white horse against a yellow background representing an AIDS prevention advertisement by Population Services International. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
Date: [1997?]Reference: 677307i- Pictures
Horse's eye: five views showing a healthy eye and an eye with cataract. Engraving by T. Cowan after B. Herring, ca. 1860.
Herring, Benjamin, 1830-1871.Date: [1860?]Reference: 570535i- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 9
Date: May 1905 - Feb 1906Reference: WF/E/01/01/09Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd