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Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
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Dress and the magic of touch
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How to play on the District line between Stepney Green and Embankment
From the crossword to the smartphone, distractions for the commuter relieve the tedium of crowded, dull journeys. Game designer Holly Gramazio delves into the world of games for trains.
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The house of Joan
The longueurs of hospital stays and enforced inactivity were the spur to Joan’s precise tailoring skills and flamboyant creations, all to the benefit of her fashion-loving sisters.
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Heat stroke and heat exhaustion
Date: 1942-1951Reference: RAMC/792/1Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
Heat pyrexia : no heat stroke no heat fever / by C.J. McCartie.
McCartie, C. J.Date: [1929?]- Archives and manuscripts
Duplicated typescript report on heat stroke and heat exhaustion
Date: c.1940sReference: RAMC/792/1/6Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Report on effects of heat in Persia and Iraq Force (Paiforce). With appendices including plans of Heat Stroke Centre buildings and air-conditioned hospital wards, and Standing Orders, 1944, for disembarkation of personnel and unit m(otor) t(ransport) in Persian Gulf ports, Orders on precautions to be taken to prevent casualties from the effects of heat, and photocopy of Medical Memorandum "Effects of heat in Persia and Iraq"
Date: 1943Reference: RAMC/792/1/1Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Copy of a special note, 1942, by the Consultant Physician, Tenth Army, on some clinical aspects of "effects of heat"
Date: 1942Reference: RAMC/792/1/2Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection