Stories
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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The island of unclaimed bodies
In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.
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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
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
Catalogue
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Report of commission of medical officers : detailed by the authority of the President to investigate the cause of yellow fever.
United States. Commission to Investigate Cause of Yellow Fever.Date: 1899- Books
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Yellow fever: its nature, diagnosis, treatment and prophylaxis, and quarantine regulations relating thereto / by Officers of the US Marine-Hospital Service, together with an abstraction of the report of the medical officers detailed as a commission to investigate the cause of yellow fever.
United States. Public Health Service.Date: 1889- Books
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The cause and prevention of yellow fever at New Orleans and other cities in America / by E.H. Barton.
Barton, Edward H.Date: 1857- Books
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Report of Commission of Medical Officers detailed by authority of the president to investigate the cause of yellow fever.
United States. Commission to Investigate Cause of Yellow Fever.Date: 1899- Archives and manuscripts
Christophers, Sir (Samuel) Rickard, CIE, OBE, FRS (1873-1978), protozoologist and expert in tropical medicine
Christophers, S. R. (Samuel Rickard), 1873-1978.Date: 20th centuryReference: GC/161