Stories
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
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Blood
Discover the history, mythology and taboos around blood and menopause, and hear from some contemporary voices about their experiences of periods and the onset of menopause.
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Heating up and drying out
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
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Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles
Some people will use a dose of ginger to help with hangovers – but it hasn’t always been a friend to the thirsty.
Catalogue
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On the progress of preventive medicine during the Victorian era : being the inaugural address delivered before the Epidemiological Society of London, session 1887-88 / by R. Thorne Thorne.
Date: 1888- Books
Das präventive Selbst : eine Kulturgeschichte moderner Gesundheitspolitik / Martin Lengwiler, Jeannette Madarász (Hg.).
Date: [2010]- Videos
Invisible enemies. Part 3, Epidemics - products of progress.
Date: 1992- Student dissertations
The public health movement and the birth of statistical medicine / Samuel Byrne.
Byrne, Samuel P. R.Date: 2014- Books
Forty days : quarantine and the traveller, c. 1700-1900 / John Booker.
Booker, John, 1941-Date: 2022