Stories
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Spanish flu and the depiction of disease
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed many millions more than World War I did. Find out why contemporary artistic depictions of its devastating impact are so rare.
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
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The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
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The enduring myth of the mad genius
There’s a fine line to tread between creativity and psychosis.
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Royal National Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest: appeal leaflet
Date: 1901Reference: SA/MAC/H.5/5Part of: Mental After Care Association- Books
Chest and heart disease in the Commonwealth 1958 : the full transactions of the NAPT Commonwealth Chest Conference incorporating the annual conference of the British Tuberculosis Association held in the Royal Festival Hall, London, 1st-4th July 1958.
NAPT Commonwealth Chest Conference (1958 : London, England)Date: [1958]
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On the surgical aspect of hepatic abscess : being three lectures delivered at the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton / by Rickman J. Godlee.
Godlee, Rickman John, Sir, 1849-1925.Date: 1890- Books
Cardiac problems for chest physicians : an NAPT symposium report of a meeting held in London, 6th December 1957 under the chairmanship of K. Shirley Smith.
Date: 1958- Books
Physiotherapy in chest diseases / by Torsten Bruce, Caroline Reuterswärd and Birgit Westin ; translated by Virginia Uhlemann ; preface by Clarence Crafoord ; foreword by Oswald S. Tubbs.
Bruce, Torsten.Date: 1958