Stories
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When depression is worse than physical illness
Chronic physical illnesses can be accompanied by troubling depressive symptoms. Elly Aylwin-Foster urges doctors to treat every aspect of her condition with the same care.
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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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Hands-on healthcare
A young hospital volunteer feared her contribution was a long way from the serious business of real healthcare. But time spent painting patients’ nails proved to be a valuable contribution to life on the ward.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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Synopsis of the diseases of the larynx, lungs and heart : comprising Dr. Edwards' tables on the examination of the chest with alterations and additions / by F. De Havilland Hall.
Date: 1878
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A treatise on the diseases of the chest and on mediate auscultation / by R.T.H. Laennec ; translated from the French by John Forbes.
Date: 1827
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On the relation of the chest-movements to prognosis in lung-disease : and on the application of stethometry to examinations for life assurance / by Arthur Ransome.
Date: 1882
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Paediatric finger diagnosis chart: The 'Three Passes'
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Leukaemia, etc, new series III, notably leucopenic and aleukameic myelosis, 'leukanaemia', choloroma-like parosteal swellings (especially case of Thomas) - and atypical manifestations of leukaemia
Date: 1910-1951Reference: PP/FPW/B.183/3Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)