Stories
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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
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A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
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The castration effect
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
Catalogue
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Nature and society in historical context / edited by Mikuláš Teich, Robinson College, Cambridge, Roy Porter, The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, and Bo Gustafsson, The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (SCASSS), Uppsala.
Date: 1997- Books
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Aphorismi Hippocratis, Græce & Latine: juxta optimam editionem Theodori Janssonii ...
Hippocrates.Date: 1736- Books
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Manuale medicorum : seu synaxis aphorismorum Hypocratis prænotionum, coacarum, & prædictionum, secundum propriam morborum omnium nomenclaturam, alphabetico digesta ordine. / Labore & industria D. Honorati Bicaissii D.M. in celeberrima Aquensi Gallo provinciæ Universit. Regia publici profess. primarii.
HippocratesDate: 1659- Books
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In Hippocratis Legem, et in ejus Epistolam ad Thessalum filium, commentarii: in quibus ostenditur, quæ medico futuro, necessaria sunt. Authore Roberto Sibbaldo M. D. Equite Aurato.
Hippocrates.Date: 1706- Books
Commento agli Aforismi di Ippocrate libro VI = Galeni in Hippocratis aphorismorum librum VI commentarium / Galeno ; testo, traduzione e note di commento di = Galeni ; edidit, in linguam italicam vertit, commentatus est Christina Savino.
GalenDate: 2020