Stories
- Article
Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
- 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.
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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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Abandoning daydreams of a life without diabetes
After years of longing for a cure for her type 1 diabetes, Daisy Watson Shaw, partly due to medical advances in managing the condition, has reached a state of acceptance. Her wishes now are for greater understanding.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Injection
Date: January 1987-November 1989Reference: PP/SUL/A/1/1/32Part of: John Sulston: archives- Archives and manuscripts
'Injection methods'
Date: Mid-late 20th CenturyReference: PP/RRM/E.6/12Part of: Macintosh, Sir Robert (1897-1989)- Archives and manuscripts
Injection and transfusion
Date: Mid-late 20th CenturyReference: PP/RRM/E.6/9Part of: Macintosh, Sir Robert (1897-1989)- Pictures
Injection 'Prima': product label. Lithograph.
Date: [1890?/1910]Reference: 539835iPart of: Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Injection being given to patient
Date: Mid 20th centuryReference: RET 1/8/4/11/4Part of: The Retreat Archive