Stories
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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Duelling doctors
An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.
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Proceedings of the 1928 annual conference : New York, N.Y. November 26-28, 1928 co-operating with American Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons, American Association of School Physicians, National Organization for Public Health Nursing and Sight-Saving Supervisors and Teachers.
National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Conference (1928 : New York, N.Y.)Date: 1928- Books
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The surgery of the spine : read before the American Surgical Association at the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, Washington, D.C., September 23, 1891 / by J. William White.
White, J. William (James William), 1850-1916.Date: 1891- Books
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Address of the President : the past, the present, and the future of our Association : delivered at the annual meeting of the American Surgical Association, held conjointly with the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, Washington, D.C., September 22-25, 1891 / by Claudius H. Mastin.
Mastin, Claudius H. (Claudius Henry), 1826-1898.Date: 1891- Books
Imagination and idealism in the medical sciences : an address delivered to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, Sept. 23, 1909, at the opening of the medical school / Christian A. Herter.
Herter, Christian Archibald, 1865-1910.Date: [1910?]- Books
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Imagination and idealism in the medical sciences / [by] Christian A. Herter ... An address delivered to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, Sept. 23, 1909, at the opening of the medical school.
Herter, Christian Archibald, 1865-1910.Date: [1910?]