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.
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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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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
- Pictures
Injections du Dr Cély: product label. Lithograph.
Date: [1890?/1910]Reference: 539836iPart of: Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.- Archives and manuscripts
'Injections, antecedents and history up to about 1890; blood transfusion and drug infusion'
Date: Mid-late 20th CenturyReference: PP/RRM/E.6/10Part of: Macintosh, Sir Robert (1897-1989)- Archives and manuscripts
46 Injections
Date: June 1967-July 1969Reference: PP/MIA/A/1/1/37Part of: Professor Michael Ashburner: archives- Film
Intravenous Injections : a safe technique.
Date: [1950?]- Videos
Intravenous Injections : a safe technique.
Date: [1950?]