Stories
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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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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.
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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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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.
Catalogue
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Recent researches concerning the etiology, propagation, and prevention of yellow fever, by the United States Army Commission / by Walter Reed.
Reed, Walter, 1851-1902.Date: 1902- Books
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Observations on the disease called the plague, the dysentery, the ophthalmy of Egypt, and on the means of prevention. : With some remarks on the yellow fever of Cadiz, and the description and plan of an hospital for the reception of patients affected with epidemic and contagious diseases / by P. Assalini ; translated from the French by Adam Neale.
Assalini, Paolo.Date: 1804- Books
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Yellow fever inoculation / [N.S. Davis].
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1817-1904.Date: 1886- Books
Inoculations for yellow fever by means of contaminated mosquitoes / by Charles Finlay.
Finlay, Carlos J. (Carlos Juan), 1833-1915.Date: [1938]- Books
Vaccination against yellow fever with immune serum and virus fixed for mice / by W.A. Sawyer, S.F. Kitchen and Wray Lloyd.
Sawyer, Wilbur A. (Wilbur Augustus), 1879-1951.Date: 1932