Our Developing Treatments display case focuses on the way that different medical conditions have been treated over time, or how particular areas of medicine have developed over time; from the earliest records to the present day. The display changes in March each year to mark National Science and Engineering Week.

Click on a topic below to access an information sheet for each topic that we have covered in the past:

• Asthma
• The common cold
• Controlled drugs - cannabis, coca & cocaine
• Controlled drugs - opium, morphine & heroin
• Gout
• Malaria
• Melancholia and mania
• Men
• Obesity
• Pain
• Poisons
• Smoking
• Syphilis
• Teething
• Whooping cough
• Women

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