Stories
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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Illness and the influence of the stars
Could alien germs from space have caused major pandemics across the world? Taras Young investigates the ideas of a few unconventional scientists who believe this to be the case.
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
Catalogue
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Galen on diseases and symptoms : their classification and causation / Ian Johnston.
Galen.Date: 2003- Books
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An inaugural dissertation upon the causes of disease, submitted preparatorily to graduation to the Medical Faculty of the University of Edinburgh / by Arthur Powell.
Powell, Arthur.Date: 1837- Books
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On certain causes affecting the origin of disease in large towns / by Thos. Williamson, M.D.
Williamson, Thomas.Date: [1866], [©1866]- Books
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Observations on the seats and causes of diseases: illustrated by the dissections of the late Professor Morgagni of Padua. By James Hamilton, Junior, M. D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Vol. 1.
Hamilton, James, 1767-1839.Date: 1795- Books
A theory of disease / Arthur Guirdham.
Guirdham, Arthur.Date: [1957]