Stories
- In pictures
Revealing the iron corset
There are around 15 iron corsets in museum collections around the world, including two in Wellcome Collection. Historians still dispute their purpose, but these intriguing objects hold clues about who would have worn them and why.
- Article
The gym of cartoon men
In men, body dysmorphia can be expressed as ‘bigorexia’ – the belief that your body is too weak and thin – or anorexia. Andrew McMillan explores two sides of the same coin.
- Article
A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
- Article
Beating the bodysnatchers
When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Iron Jelloids prevent and overcome iron-starvation, the thief of health and strength / Iron 'Jelloid' Co. Ltd.
Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]- Books
Iron metabolism.
Symposium on Iron Metabolism (1976 : London, England)Date: 1977- Books
Iron in flour.
Great Britain. Ministry of Health.Date: 1968
- Digital Images
- Online
Iron Age depilatory tweezers.
- Ephemera
Iron Jelloids : the Iron Jelloid treatment for the cure of anaemia ... / by Dr. Andrew Wilson.
Wilson, Andrew.Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]