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Science Fights Disease with Micro-Camera

Date released

5 Apr 1937

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

637

NoS ID

035122

Story no

5 / 7

Extras

1 shot list

Combination of cine-camera and microscope brings wonderful aid to scientists in fight against disease.

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Muscular Dystrophy

Date released

1970

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

42

NoS ID

350979

Story no

4 / 4

COI synopsis: This disease, genetic in origin, affects only young boys, causing healthy muscle to deteriorate and ultimately collapse. Scientists at a north of England neurological centre are investigating...

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Roving Camera Reports: Minister Tells of Foot and Mouth Disease

Date released

2 Jun 1952

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

1921

NoS ID

069968

Story no

6 / 8

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Fighting Fungi

Date released

1975

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

169

NoS ID

325715

Story no

1 / 4

COI synopsis: Fighting disease with a fungus is a principle of crucial importance in medicine since the discovery of penicillin. Now it’s found to work in the plant world too: pear trees are being...

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Rat Poison Horse Cure

Date released

1980

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

255

NoS ID

326032

Story no

1 / 3

COI synopsis: There’s a particularly nasty blood disease among horses, called navicular disease. It causes veins in the navicular bone to proliferate, weakening it structurally, with resulting lameness. A...

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Waterloo Cup Postponed Owing to a Foot and Mouth Disease

Date released

4 Feb 1924

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

649-2

NoS ID

129357

Story no

4 / 4

Postponement of the coursing championship.

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Fighting Tropical Disease

Date released

1969

Series name

London Line

Issue no

249

NoS ID

350437

Story no

3 / 4

COI synopsis: There are over a million people in Africa suffering from sleeping sickness and an enormous amount of research is going on in Institutes and Universities throughout the world. In Britain a very...

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Giant Vacuum Cleaner

Date released

19 Jan 1933

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

264

NoS ID

139341

Story no

7 / 8

Extras

1 commentary sheet

Installed by GWR for cleaning carriages and preventing disease.

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The Butterflies And The Killer Disease... Rhesus Negative

Date released

1968

Series name

London Line (Colour series 2)

Issue no

40

NoS ID

350249

Story no

3 / 4

COI synopsis: Rhesus negative - for unborn babies a blood disease that is all too often a killer. A new serum has been developed by Dr Philip Sheppard and Professor Cyril Clarke of Liverpool University which...

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Inventive Brits: Rat Poison Horse Cure

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

303

NoS ID

352431

Story no

3 / 6

COI synopsis: Some would call it the eccentricty of the British, but kinder souls define it as the British inventiveness. There’s a tradition in Britain, a compulsion to search out new ideas, to adapt...

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