Stories
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
- In pictures
The history of sanatoriums and surveillance
The sanatorium treatment for tuberculosis was a curious combination of sunshine, fresh air, exercise and constant surveillance.
- Article
The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
- Article
Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
Open-air treatment of surgical tuberculosis / by De Forest Willard.
Willard, De Forest, 1846-1910.Date: [1908]- Books
Open-air at home : practical experience of the continuation of sanatorium treatment / by Stanley H. Bates.
Bates, Stanley H.Date: 1910- Pictures
- Online
Nottingham: open air treatment of sick children. Photograph, ca. 191-.
Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]Reference: 666042i- Books
The open-air treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis / by F.W. Burton-Fanning.
Burton-Fanning, F. W.Date: 1909- Pictures
- Online
Nottingham: a verandah for open air treatment of the sick. Photograph, 1914.
Date: 1914Reference: 666053i