Stories
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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
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When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
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A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
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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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Diseases of the Lung
- Archives and manuscripts
Cases of Phthisis and Other Lung Diseases in Family Faculties Returns
Date: c1884Reference: GALTON/2/4/7/2/6Part of: Galton Papers
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A man with tuberculosis surrounded by a group of people: treatment of tuberculosis in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Division of Leprosy Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, ca. 2000.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 755367i- Books
Guidelines for blood-material interactions / Devices and Technology Branch, Division of Heart and Vascular Diseases, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Date: 1980- Books
Steroid treatment for asthma and other lung diseases / British Lung Foundation.
Date: 2009
