Stories
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The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
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An address to the people of Great-Britain (respectfully offered to the people of Ireland) on the propriety of abstaining from West-India sugar and rum.
Fox, William, active 1791-1813.Date: 1792- Archives and manuscripts
Unsigned paper arguing for lower duties on medicinal plants imported from the East to Great Britain
Date: Late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.7226/1Part of: Medicinal Plants: miscellany- Books
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Pharmacographia : A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India / by Friedrich A. Flückiger and Daniel Hanbury.
Flückiger, Friedrich A. (Friedrich August), 1828-1894.Date: 1879- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXXIII. Foreign and colonial systems of poor relief with a memorandum on the relief of famines in India.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1910- Books
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Rainfall and climate in India / by Sir Joseph Fayrer.
Fayrer, Sir Joseph, 1824-1907.Date: [1881]