Stories
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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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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
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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.
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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An address to the public on the advantages of vaccine inoculation: with the objections to it refuted. By Henry Jenner, surgeon, F.L.S. &c.
Jenner, Henry.Date: [1800?]- Books
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Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de vaccina; quam, annuente summo numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, D. Georgii Baird, S. S. T. P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti; necnon Amplissimi Senatus Academici Consensu, Et Nobilissimae Facultatis Medicae Decreto; pro gradu doctoris, summisque in Medicina Honoribus ac Privilegiis rite et Legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Gulielmus Thomas Russell, Hibernus, Soc. Reg. Phys. Edin. Soc. Honor. - Soc. Hiber. Med. Edin. Soc. Extr. et Praeses Annuus,-Soc. Specul. Soc. &c. Ad diem 12 Septembris. hora locoque solitis.
Russell, William Thomas.Date: 1800- Books
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Information to parents respecting the vaccine inoculation; or, the inoculation for cow-pox. By F. Skrimshire, M.D.
Skrimshire, F. (Fenwick), 1774 or 1775-1855.Date: 1800- Books
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On the cow pock, or vaccination.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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The present method of inoculating for the small-pox. To which are added, some experiments instituted with a view to discover the effects of a similar treatment in the natural small-pox. By Thomas Dimsdale, M.D.
Dimsdale, Thomas, 1712-1800.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]