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Young children were recruited as child labourers in the fast-growing factories during the Industrial Revolution. The unsanitary condictions of the factories often made them ill. They worked on tough machines that required delicate, small fingers, which is presumably how the finger in our collection came to be.
In the early nineteenth century the British government passed the Cotton Factories Regulation Act, Ten hour Bill and Regulation of Child Labour Law. This was a sign of change and progress for children’s rights.
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Triqueti chose this symbolical image to represent medicine as a discipline of comfort and healing. The mother figure administers her sacred chalice of medicine to her daughter, sacrificing time and resources for the needs of a loved one. The root of medicine is exactly a hope of healing for dear ones – we all wish we could defeat a disease when our loved ones contract it. Edward Yates himself had sacrificed a large sum of his own holdings for the hard working medics and professors at UCL. Yates believed in them, and he believed in medicine.
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Parasites require a host to function, so the host is sacrificed for the thorny-headed worm to live. However, in the case of the thorny-headed worm, the animal will not usually die; they will only suffer intestinal pain.
Humans have also been sacrificed in the study of these parasite. Scientists have been known to infect themselves to learn more about how a parasite functions, and what of an infection is.
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