Stories
- In pictures
Graphic Gallery: Yellow
Yellow is for cleanliness, but also for fever and illness.
- Article
The stranger who started an epidemic
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
- Article
Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Yellow Fever
Date: 1954-1957Reference: WA/PRL/HP/Sub/12/1Part of: Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories- Archives and manuscripts
Yellow Fever
Date: c1960Reference: WF/M/I/BP/53Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Yellow Fever
Date: 1942-1957Reference: WA/PRL/HP/Sub/12Part of: Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories- Books
Yellow fever : etiology, symptoms and diagnosis / by Joseph Goldberger.
Goldberger, Joseph, 1874-1929.Date: 1907- Archives and manuscripts
'Yellow Fever: Harvesting the Embryo'
Date: c.1947Reference: WA/PHO/Kel/A.8/3Part of: Photographs