Microscopic section of human lung from phosgene shell poisoning: death at 19th hour after gassing, c.1917

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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.

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 Robert Dighton's 'The figure of a woman representing the map of Scotland - 1794'

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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 ...

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 A ward off the Bellahouston theatre Royal Glasgow Infirmary 

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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...

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

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Ivory points were used to give smallpox vaccinations by rubbing, scratching or inserting the vaccine into the skin, using a lancet. These points were ...

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  ‘Camoquin’ is a brand name for an anti-malaria drug called Amodiaquine. The label on the bottle claims that this drug can prevent ...

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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...

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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...

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 Edward Jenner, vaccinating his young child, held by Mrs Jenner; a maid rolls up her sleeve, a man stands outside holding a cow. Coloured engravi...

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

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

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

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An NHS Walk-in Centre in Soho, London in 2007. Credit: Wellcome Library, London Wellcome Images N0032683

X-ray of slate pneumoconiosis sufferer's lungs. Taken in 1931. Credit: Wellcome Library, London Wellcome Images L0029726

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 A...

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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. Credit: Wellcome Library, Lon...

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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. Credit: Well...

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Healthcare workers giving a lecture on mosquitoes and malaria at Ho, a town in Southeast Ghana. Mid 20th century Credit: Wellcome Library London Wel...

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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. Credit: W...

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

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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: Wellco...

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An outdoor clinic, probably in Nigeria. Showing patients being treated by missionary Dr Stanley Brown. Dr Brown conducted research on leprosy and carr...

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

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

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

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English medicine chest, for cholera, after 1849. Credit: Science Museum, London Wellcome Images: L0057224  

A corpse is lifted from the back of a wagon during the 1832 cholera epidemic. Coloured lithograph, c. 1832. Credit: Wellcome Library, London Wellcom...

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Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 3/4 front Credit: Wellcome Library, London Wellcome Images: M0006527  

Demolition of New Surgical Hospital of 1861, Glasgow Credit: Wellcome Library, London Wellcome Images: M0006520  

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

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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. He...

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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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