Stories
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Heating up and drying out
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
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The metamorphosis of masturbation
Throughout history, medics and campaigners have tried to stamp out masturbation – but is modern science transforming its reputation?
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Fake news and the flu
Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.
Catalogue
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Epidemiology in the mid-nineteenth century : the case of the 1845-1846 yellow fever epidemic at Boa Vista / K. David Patterson.
Patterson, K. David (Karl David), 1941-Date: 1993- Books
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An outline of the history and cure of fever, endemic and contagious; more expressly the contagious fever of jails, ships, and hospitals; the concentrated endemic, vulgarly the yellow fever of the West Indies. To which is added, an explanation of the principles of military discipline and Economy: with a seheme of Medical arrangement for-armies. By Robert Jackson, M.D.
Jackson, Robert, 1750-1827.Date: 1798- Books
Studies of the distribution of immunity to yellow fever in Brazil. II, The disproportion between immunity distribution as revealed by complement-fixation and mouse-protection tests and history of yellow fever attack at Cambucy, Rio de Janeiro / by Fred L. Soper and Alvaro de Andrade.
Soper, Fred Lowe, 1893-1977.Date: 1933- Archives and manuscripts
Beckenham Photograph Library - Negatives & Finding Aids
Date: c1945-c1996Reference: WF/M/I/BPart of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Yellow fever, black goddess : the coevolution of people and plagues / Christopher Wills.
Wills, Christopher.Date: 1996