Stories
- Article
The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
- Article
Trust me, I’m a patient
Artist Rachel Rowan Olive is an expert in the way her mental health condition affects her. Here she explains how it helps if doctors understand that.
- Article
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.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
Catalogue
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Medical geography / from Our Medical Correspondent.
Our Medical Correspondent.Date: [1964]- Books
Contribution of biochemistry to understanding cancer : topic for London conference / from our Medical Correspondent.
Medical Correspondent.Date: [1958]- Archives and manuscripts
A Correspondent, 'Just Fifty Years Ago', The Times, 24 Aug 1964
Date: 1964Reference: SA/MWF/C.173/1Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Books
The mechanism of remembering : recent advances in neurology help in threading the maze of memory / from Our Medical Correspondent.
Our Medical Correspondent.Date: [1958]- Books
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Medical practice in curing fevers: Correspondent to Rational Methods, &c. and to those curative Indications, which arise from the febrile Symptoms of the Patient: and Exemplified in many Cases of the most usual Fevers, with the Medicines by which they were cured. By Theophilus Lobb, M. D. and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Lobb, Theophilus, 1678-1763.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]