Stories
- Article
Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
History of condoms from animal to rubber
Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
Des grandes épidémies et de leur prophylaxie internationale : avec le texte des lois, décrets, arrêtés, ordonnances et instructions qui s'y rattachent / par Léon Depautaine.
Depautaine, Dr., active 19th century.Date: 1868- Ephemera
Welfare and orphanages ephemera. Box 1.
- Pictures
The Bosphorus. Lithographs after J. Schranz, 1854.
Schranz, Joseph.Date: [1854]Reference: 34118i