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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The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
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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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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
Catalogue
- Books
Custom and practice in medical care : a comparative study of two hospitals in Arbroath, Scotland, U.K. and Waterville, Maine, U.S.A. / J. Simpson [and others].
Date: 1968- Books
Memoirs on Paris hospitals / by Jacques Tenon ; edited and with an introduction, notes, and appendices by Dora B. Weiner.
Tenon, Jacques, 1724-1816.Date: [1996], ©1996- Videos
Lassa fever.
Date: 1999- Journals
Contributions from the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Boston City Hospital, the Long Island Hospital, and the Neurological Laboratory / Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Harvard Medical School. Department of NeurologyDate: 1906-- Pictures
"The hospital": advertisement for film. Colour lithograph, 1972.
Date: 1972Reference: 679893i