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April 1, 2024
1st April 1924: The Beginning of The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

March 28, 2024
World Tuberculosis Day 2024. Yes! We can end TB!

March 25, 2024
Indian medicinal plants : an early nineteenth century illustrated reference book by the Indian physicians K.R. Kirtikar and B.D. Basu LSHTM Rare Book Blog series No. 9. February 2024.

February 21, 2024
Book Display: Hearts and Heart Health

February 9, 2024
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February 8, 2024
India in the Historical Collection (pt. 2): Plants and Pharmacology

February 6, 2024
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February 5, 2024
World Leprosy Day 2024

January 31, 2024
Understanding puerperal fever in the eighteenth century : the work of John Leake (1729-1792), man-midwife. LSHTM Rare Books Blog No. 8 January 2024.

January 25, 2024

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1915 Bilharzia Expedition

By Victoria Cranna · February 10, 2015 · Archives · No comments

In February 1915, three members of School Staff: Robert Leiper, Reginald Cockin and John Gordon Thomson, set off for Egypt to study bilharzia among the troops at the request of the War Office. Leiper, a helminthologist, led the expedition and had experience of studying this disease before the war. In…

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