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KATTERFELTO RESOURCES

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THEMES: Quack Medicine, Germ Theory, History of Technology 

BOOKS

 

Robert Hooke, Micrographia

 

Fiona Haslam, From Hogarth to Rowlandson: Medicine in Art in Eighteenth-century Britain (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1996).

 

Roy Porter, Health for Sale: Quackery in England, 1660-1850 (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1989).

 

Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter, Patient’s Progress: Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteenth Century England (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989).

 

 

ONLINE RESOURCES

GERM THEORY

Germ Theory Exhibit – UK Science Museum

 

BBC History, Louis Pasteur

 

Pasteur’s Papers on Germ Theory

 

www.flu.gov - History of Influenza Pandemics

 

WebFlu Historical Database of Influenza

 

WebFlu -  "History of Influenza in England," Reports on Public Health and Medical Subjects, No.4: Report on the Pandemic of  Influenza, 1918-1919 (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1920).

 

C18TH MICROSCOPE TECHNOLOGY

Benjamin Martin's Solar Microscope

 

Public Microscope Shows

 

QUACKERY

A. Dickson Wright, "Quacks Through the Ages,"

Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, 105/4995 (18 January, 1957): 161-178.

 

Roy Porter, "Interpreting Quackery in Georgian England," Monograph. (PDF)

 

Jim Cox, "That Quacking Sound in Colonial America," CW Journal (Spring 2004). 

 

Rosamond Bayne-Powell, Travellers in Eighteenth-Century England (London: J. Murray, 1951).

 

 

 

 

 

GRAPHICS and TIMELINES

Bacteriology, 1887

 

Caricature of microscope projection

 

Solar Microscope

 

 

TIMELINES

 

GERM THEORY TIMELINE

 

Interactive Germ Theory Timeline

 

Human Flu Pandemics

 

 

 

VIDEO

Germ Theory Of Disease Lecture

Professor Frank Snowden, Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of History at Yale University

 

Open Yale – Germ Theory

Professor Frank Snowden, Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of History

 

 

"Quacks and Cures"

Wellcome Collections

 

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