Stories
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Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude
Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Unsigned paper arguing for lower duties on medicinal plants imported from the East to Great Britain
Date: Late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.7226/1Part of: Medicinal Plants: miscellany- Books
Report from the Select Committee on Medicine Stamp Duties.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Medicine Stamp Duties.Date: 1937- Books
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Serious considerations on the several high duties which the nation in general, (as well as it's trade in particular) labours under: with a proposal for preventing the running of goods, discharging the trader from any search, and raising all the publick supplies, by one single tax. By a well-wisher to the good people of Great-Britain.
Decker, Matthew, Sir, 1679-1749.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
Report from the Select Committee on Medicine Stamp Duties : together with the proceddings of the Committee, minutes of evidence and index, also proceedings of the Select Committee on Medicine Stamp Duties, Session 1935-36.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Medicine Stamp Duties.Date: 1937- Books
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First-[second] report of the Royal Sanitary Commission.
Great Britain. Royal Sanitary Commission.Date: 1869-1874