Stories
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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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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 ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
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The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
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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- Pictures
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A man apparently with an STD looking alarmed as he holds up a sheet to cover his genital area; with three further anxious men and women with similar complaints to the right; a warning to seek treatment for STD's by the National AIDS Control Project in New Delhi. Colour lithograph, 1995.
Date: Dec [19]95Reference: 677170i- Books
Rheumatism : its prevention and cure / by Clement Jeffery.
Jeffery, Clement.Date: 1929- Books
Rheumatism : its prevention and cure / by Clement Jeffery.
Jeffery, Clement.Date: 1934- Books
Rheumatism : its prevention and cure / by Clement Jeffery.
Jeffery, Clement.Date: 1935