Stories
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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.
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Illness and the influence of the stars
Could alien germs from space have caused major pandemics across the world? Taras Young investigates the ideas of a few unconventional scientists who believe this to be the case.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
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Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz
The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.
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A practical method as used for the cure of the plague in London, in 1665. By Sir Charles Scarborough, Knt. Physician to His Royal Highness the Duke of York. With some remarks upon the present plague in France.
Scarburgh, Charles, Sir, 1616-1694.Date: 1722- Pictures
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Four men sitting cross-legged outside a building with bells hanging from the roof: Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
Date: 1896Reference: 37037i- Pictures
A group of men sitting cross-legged with thermometers in their mouths, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.
Moss, C., Captain, active approximately 1897.Date: [1897?]Reference: 37882iPart of: Moss, C., Captain, fl. ca. 1897.- Pictures
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Saint Carlo Borromeo carrying the Holy Cross in the plague of Milan. Etching, 1781, after Carlo Cesi or Pietro Berrettini, il Cortona.
Cesi, Carlo, 1626-1686.Date: 1781Reference: 4544iPart of: Nouvelle collection d'estampes contenant cinquante pièces en eau forte.- Digital Images
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Zachariah's cross. A double cross, on one side side Zacharias and his blessing, on the other St. Benedict and the lettering of the cross of St. Benedict. Protection against the plague.