Stories
- Article
Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
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When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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When depression is worse than physical illness
Chronic physical illnesses can be accompanied by troubling depressive symptoms. Elly Aylwin-Foster urges doctors to treat every aspect of her condition with the same care.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
The Treatment of Infectious and Contagious Diseases by the Serum method, by "Civis mundi" Vol I
Date: c. 1898Reference: MS.8498Part of: The Treatment of Infectious and Contagious Diseases by the Serum method, by "Civis mundi"- Archives and manuscripts
Press Adverts - Dips and Livestock Remedies
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: Mar 1930 - 12 Jan 1943Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Product Publications: Science in Medicine - Wellcome Products for Dispensing
Date: 1908-1953Reference: WF/M/PB/34/03/08Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Notebook - 1
Date: 1910-1941Reference: GC/21/1Part of: Hood, Basil- Books
- Online
A short treatise on the all-cleansing, - all-healing, - and all-invigorating qualities of the simple earth, When long and repeatedly applied to the naked Human-Body and Lungs, for the safe, speedy, and radical Cure of all Diseases, internal as well as external, which are, in their Nature or Stage, susceptible of being cured;-for the preservation of the Health, Vigour, Bloom and Beauty of Body and of Mind;-For rejuvenating the aged and decaying Human-Body;-And for prolonging Life to the very longest possible Period. To which are added, a description of the best Kinds of Soil, or Mould, and Situations,-And of the best Methods of conducting this most essicacious, and most salutary Practice of Earth-Bathing; And a free Critique on the regular Professors or Teachers, and Practisers of Medicine, Surgery, &c. Being the first Book or Pamphlet that ever was published in the World on the Subject of Earth-Bathing. By James Graham, M. D.
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]