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.
Catalogue
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Lung disease in deer and other animals.
Boaler, George.Date: 1883- Books
Occupational lung disease / British Lung Foundation.
Date: 2008- Books
COPD : chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / British Lung Foundation.
Date: 2009- Books
COPD : living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / British Lung Foundation.
Date: 2006- Books
COPD : living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / British Lung Foundation.
Date: 2009
