This rare illustration shows the pathological damage caused by phosgene in World War I. Phosgene gas proved to be even more dangerous than its forerunner - chlorine - as it induced much less coughing and consequently more of it was inhaled. It also had a delayed effect, so that apparently healthy soldiers could succumb to poisoning up to 48 hours after inhalation. As with other poison gases, phosgene attacked the respiratory system and resulted in suffocation.

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In order to accommodate the massive numbers of casualties in World War I, numerous buildings were requisitioned as military hospitals, including mansion houses and casinos. One of the most elaborate hospitals was the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, which opened its doors to hundreds of wounded Indian troops returning from the battlefields in France.

The figure of a woman representing the map of Scotland. Etching by Robert Dighton, artist, actor and print seller (1752 - 1814). Dighton was well known as a caricaturist. He satirised lawyers, military officers, actors and actresses, as well as tailors, academics and the lowest classes. His son, Richard Dighton, was also a caricaturist. Robert Dighton also became famous after being caught for stealing paintings from the National Gallery at the beginning of the 19th century. His depiction of Scotland as a grizzly old woman was the hight of satire at the turn of the century.

Image reprinted with the kind permission of the Wellcome Collection, Reference: Wellcome Library no. 36110i 

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Founded by a merchant of Banff called Alexander Chalmers who died 11 August 1835. Chalmers left the whole of his estate to be applied, upon the death of his wife, towards funding and building a hospital for the people in the Royal Burgh of Banff.  On the 19th July 1864 Chalmers Hospital opened.

The original 'deed of mortification' outlined this was for any destitute sick persons born, domiciled or resident in the Banff area, although in 1929 the trustees successfully petitioned to open this to include a large geographical area.  

For more information - follow this link to read a 1929 article from the Glasgow Herald about the success of the hospital - https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XfY9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=GEkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4820%2C767264 

 Credit Wellcome Collection - Reference: Wellcome Library no. 15444i

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A ward off the Bellahouston theatre Royal Glasgow Infirmary

View of the interior of a ward off the Bellahouston theatre, Royal Glasgow Infirmary - https://wellcomecollection.org/works/zsqff3zb?query=Glasgow 

Credit: Wellcome Library, London 

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 Royal Infirmary Glasgow - view of part of the original Lister Ward. Whyte & Sons 20 Union St. Glasgow. - 1928 

 Slum housing in Garngad, photographed in 1925. A heavy cloud of polluted air hangs over the area, produced by the many heavy industrial works in the area, such as the St Rollox Chemical Works and the Tharsis Sulphur & Copper Works.

Reference: D-AP9/7/9/25

Reproduced from http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSA05269 

Timeline published by the British Government on the 11 August 2015 to show historical vaccine development and introduction of vaccines in the UK.

Credit: Public Health England, 11th August 2015, 

Ivory points were used to give smallpox vaccinations by rubbing, scratching or inserting the vaccine into the skin, using a lancet. These points were covered with calf lymph which carried the disease cowpox, a milder form of smallpox. An attack gives immunity to smallpox. Ivory was a useful material as the points could be used to transport vaccines over long distances. The points are just 24 mm long.

Credit Science Museum, London, Wellcome Images, L0057260.

made: 1947-1960 

Credit Science Museum, London, Wellcome Images,  L0058545.

Known as a seron in its native Peru, South America, this rawhide bag was used to store and carry cinchona bark. For centuries, local people had chewed or ground up the bark as a treatment for fevers and malaria. As the European powers began to expand both their trade routes and empires, cinchona became a highly important commodity. In the early 1800s, quinine, the primary anti-malarial component of cinchona, was first isolated, allowing the production of more effective drugs to combat the disease.

The bag was originally collected by the expedition of Hipolito Ruiz Lopez and Antonio Pavon y Jimienz, which was sent to Peru in 1777 by the Spanish monarch Charles III to explore the region. 

The bag was later presented to the Wellcome collections by Alfonso XIII, King of Spain (1886-1941), in 1930.

maker: Unknown maker

Place made: Peru made: 1777-1785

These anti-malarial pills were used by travellers or people living in areas where malaria was common. The pills contain quinine, a bitter tasting part of the bark of a cinchona tree, originally from South America but also cultivated in South Asia. From the early 1800s, quinine was used as a remedy against malaria. It was added to tonic water so the remedy was easier to swallow and today is still present in tonic water. It is still used to a limited degree as a medicine.

 Edward Jenner, vaccinating his young child, held by Mrs Jenner; a maid rolls up her sleeve, a man stands outside holding a cow. Coloured engraving by C. Manigaud after E Hamman.

Credit: Wellcome Library London L0015950

Watercolour drawings of the left arm showing smallpox inoculation (variolation) on verso and cowpox inoculation (vaccination) on recto. 14th day smallpox and cowpox.

Credit: Wellcome Library London L0015959

Broad Street (latterly Broadwick Street), Soho, with a white silhouette replica of the Broad Street pump identifed by John Snow as a source of cholera-infected water.

Credit: Wellcome Library London L0028567

Photograph showing children drinking and washing in a muddy river at the Masai village of Rosalin in the Hai District of Tanzania. 2006

Credit: Wellcome Library London: C0033019

An NHS Walk-in Centre in Soho, London in 2007.

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X-ray of slate pneumoconiosis sufferer's lungs. Taken in 1931.

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A boy being introduced to safe industrial practices by an older man wearing a cloth cap. This poster was issued jointly by the National Safety First Association and the Industrial Welfare Society.

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The hand of a factory worker clutching his foot because he has knocked it against a heavy cogwheel lying on the ground.

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A man with an injured back after lifting a crate of heavy metal bolts; with diagrams of the approved and disapproved methods of lifting.

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Healthcare workers giving a lecture on mosquitoes and malaria at Ho, a town in Southeast Ghana. Mid 20th century

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District Office of the Medical Officer of the Malaria Control Unit located in a heath centre at Hoogly, in the state of West Bengal, India.

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A confrontation between two figures, representing industrial diseases being challenged by health gained from use of Morris Evans' remedies.

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In the 18th and 19th centuries a 'Bheestie' was an Indian official who worked to 'supply water and drainage
for garrisons and towns.'

Credit: Wellcome Images L0022217

An outdoor clinic, probably in Nigeria. Showing patients being treated by missionary Dr Stanley Brown. Dr Brown conducted research on leprosy and carried out tests on anti-leprosy drugs in Nigeria the 1960s.

Credit: Wellcome Images L0044613
 

Photograph showing Waldemar Mordecai Wolffe Haffkine (1860-1930), Bacteriologist with the Government of India, inoculating a community against cholera in Calcutta, March 1894.

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Broadsheet warning about Indian cholera symptons and recommending remedies, issued in Clerkenwell, London, by Thos. Key and Geo. Tindall: Church wardens. London, 1831.

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A figure dressed in a cholera safety suit. Coloured etching. English, after a German or French original of 1832.

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English medicine chest, for cholera, after 1849.

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A corpse is lifted from the back of a wagon during the 1832 cholera epidemic. Coloured lithograph, c. 1832.

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Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 3/4 front

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Demolition of New Surgical Hospital of 1861, Glasgow

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A 'Cholera patient': caricature of a cholera patient experimenting with remedies (Robert Cruickshank's random shots no. 2)

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A group of doctors parade a dummy with a skeleton's head representing cholera: a group of people run screaming from it. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath, 1832

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A woman extravagantly equipped to deal with the cholera epidemic of 1832; satirizing the abundance of dubious advice on how to combat cholera, 1832

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