Stories
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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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Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
Catalogue
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Pharmacographia : A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India / by Friedrich A. Flückiger and Daniel Hanbury.
Flückiger, Friedrich A. (Friedrich August), 1828-1894.Date: 1879- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXXII. Reports on visits paid by the Labour Colonies Committee to certain institutions in Holland, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1910- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXIX. Report from General Assembly's Committee on Church Interests, with appendix.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1910- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the administrative procedures for controlling danger to man through the use as food of the meat and milk of tuberculous animals.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Tuberculosis.Date: 1898- Books
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Report of the Commitee appointed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, to enquire into the causes of the outbreak of scurvy in the recent Arctic Expedition ; the adequacy of the provision made by the Admiralty in the way of food, medicine, and medical comforts ; and the propriety of the orders given by the commander o[f] the Expedition for provisioning the sledge parties.
Great Britain. Admiralty. Committee on Scurvy.Date: [1877?]