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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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
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Bleeding healthy
For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.
Catalogue
- Pictures
- Online
Smallpox epidemic, Palestine: a boy covered with smallpox pustules. Photograph, 1922.
Date: [1922]Reference: 562477i
- Books
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Smallpox and vaccination historically and medically considered : an inquiry into the causes of the recent increase of smallpox, and the means for its prevention / by Alfred Collinson.
Collinson, Alfred.Date: 1860- 3-D Objects
Smallpox.
Jerram, LukeDate: 2008Reference: 3306443iPart of: Glass microbiology.- Archives and manuscripts
Report on smallpox epidemic
Date: 1945Reference: GC/195/1Part of: Ashton, Dr L. P.: report on smallpox epidemic in Nyanza Province, Kenya, 1945- Books
Smallpox / by C.W. Dixon.
Dixon, C. W. (Cyril William), 1912-2013.Date: 1962
