Stories
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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An essay of the great effects of even languid and unheeded motion : whereunto is annexed An experimental discourse of some little observed causes of the insalubrity and salubrity of the air and its effects / by Robert Boyle.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691Date: 1685- Books
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An essay of the great effects of even languid and unheeded motion : whereunto is annexed An experimental discourse of some little observed causes of the insalubrity and salubrity of the air and its effects / by the Honourable Robert Boyle.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691Date: 1685- Books
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Tentamen medicum, inaugurale, de aere, et imperio ejus in corpora humana. Quod, annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, D. Gulielmi Robertson, S.S.T.P. Academiæ Edinburgenæ Præfecti; nec non amplissimi senatus academici consesu, et nobilissimae facultatis medicæ decreto, Pro Gradu Doctoratus, summisque in medicina Honoribus et privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Edmundus Cullen, hibernus. A.B. Trin. Coll. Dub. Ad diem 25. Junii, hora locoque solitis.
Cullen, Edmund.Date: M,DCC,LXXXI. [1781]- Books
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The civil and natural history of Jamaica. Containing I. An accurate description of that island, its situation, and soil; with a brief account of its former and present state, government, revenues, produce, and trade. II. An history of the natural productions, including the various sorts of native fossils; perfect and imperfect vegetables; quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects; with their properties and uses in mechanics, diet, and physic. By Patrick Browne, M.D. illustrated with forty-nine copper plates; in which the most curious productions are represented of their natural sizes, and delineated immediately from the objects, by George Dionysius Ehret. There are now added complete Linnaean indexes, and a large and accurate map of the island.
Browne, Patrick, 1720?-1790.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Hippocrates upon air, water, and situation; upon epidemical diseases; and upon prognosticks, in acute cases especially. To this is added (by way of comparison) Thucydides's account of the plague of Athens The whole translated, methodis'd, and illustrated with useful and explanatory Notes. By Francis Clifton, M.D. Physician to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society.
Hippocrates.Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]