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A brief history of ventilation
| Dr Lindsey FitzharrisSteven Pocock
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
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History of condoms from animal to rubber
| Taryn Cain
Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.
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Getting under the skin
| Taryn Cain
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
| Ross MacFarlane
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.