Stories
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
- Article
Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Tuberculosis patient 19 - playing ball (artwork)
Date: 1940-1960Reference: PP/RSI/B/1/5/17Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Sequences proper: Tuberculosis patient 12 - "Joyce"
Date: 1940-1950Reference: PP/RSI/B/1/1/17Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Ephemera
Sanatoria, water therapy & saunas ephemera. Box 1.
- Books
- Online
The cure of consumption : further communications on a remedy for tuberculosis / by Robert Koch.
Koch Robert, 1843-1910.Date: 1890- Pictures
Silhouette of a nude woman leaping in a sunburst in the mountains, representing the healthful effects of Leysin in the treatment of tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by Jacomo, ca. 1930.
Jacomo.Date: [1930?]Reference: 41337i