Stories
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How music opens the doors of memory and the mind
People living with dementia can often still listen, perform or move to music. What does this tell us about how memories are formed?
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What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
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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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The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
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Transmission of diseases : first paper ; consumption ; read before the Maine Medical Association, June session, 1874 / by A. C. Hamlin, M.D.
Hamlin, Augustus C. (Augustus Choate), 1829-1905.Date: 1874- Books
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Remarks of S.H. Tewksbury, M.D. on the bill for the promotion of medical science : also, an appeal to the members of the legislature in behalf of the Maine Medical Association, in the Senate chamber, Feb. 27, 1855.
Tewksbury, S. H. (Samuel Henry), 1819-1880.Date: 1855- Books
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Diseases of the lachrymal apparatus : a paper read before the Maine Medical Association, June 13, 1882 / by E. Eugene Holt.
Holt, E. E. (Erastus Eugene), 1849-1931.Date: 1882- Books
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The remedial uses of hypnotism : an essay read at the Annual meeting of the Maine Medical Association, 9th June, 1892 / by Frederic Henry Gerrish.
Gerrish, Frederic Henry, 1845-1920.Date: 1892- Books
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Chronic intestinal stasis / by William Seaman Bainbridge.
Bainbridge, William Seaman, 1870-1947.Date: 1913