Stories
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The shape of thought
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.
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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
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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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Investigating what lithium is and how it works
The more questions Laura Grace Simpkins asked about lithium, the more she realised how little is known about this powerful drug and how it affects our mental health.
Catalogue
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I.C.I. pharmaceutical research laboratories, Alderley Park / Imperial Chemical Industries, Pharmaceuticals Division.
Imperial Chemical Industries, ltd. Pharmaceuticals Division.Date: [1961?]
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We offer you the products of skilled chemistry in our own laboratories... /cManchester Chemical Co. Ltd.
Manchester Chemical Co.Date: [1925]- Books
Chemical procedures for clinical laboratories / by Marjorie R. Mattice.
Mattice, Marjorie R.Date: [1936]
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The Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories, London.
Power, Frederick B. (Frederick Belding), 1853-1927.Date: 1914
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Edinburgh School of Medicine. Chemical laboratories. Early photograph of students on the roof and out of windows during an election.