Stories
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Born in the NHS
Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.
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The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
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Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
Catalogue
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Mortality trends in Australia since 1900 compared with other western countries / John Powles.
Powles, JohnDate: 1987- Books
Mortality on convict voyages, 1787-1820 : whose responsibility? / Rob L. Simpson.
Simpson, Rob L.Date: 1989- Archives and manuscripts
Printed Act Bill of Mortality for London.
Date: 5 December 1758Reference: MS.628/4Part of: Barber-Surgeons' Company: material collected by Sir D'Arcy Power (1855-1941)- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 25. 'Prenatal Corticosteroids for Reducing Morbidity and Mortality After Preterm Birth'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1989-2006Reference: GC/253/A/25Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Books
Mortality in the fifteenth century : some new evidence / by John Hatcher.
Hatcher, John.Date: 1986