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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Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
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Intertwined with air
Siwakorn Odochao details his people’s way of perceiving trees and humans as intimately connected, and draws on the air as the element that weaves between them. Through the co-dependency of humans and trees to prepare the air for each other, he elaborates on the relationship between air, health and environment.
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Virtual reality and the fix of the future
Virtual reality, with its complex sensory tricks, takes us beyond the real world. Find out how these potentially addictive experiences can harm us – or might even have therapeutic uses.
Catalogue
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Placenta
Date: 1980-- Archives and manuscripts
Placenta Praevia Notebook
Date: Feb 1938Reference: PENROSE/2/24/1/2Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Placenta cell sample prints and slides
Date: c.1963-c.1969Reference: PP/MYG/C/7Part of: Young, Maureen (1915-2013)
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Placenta praevia / by G.M.B. Maughs.
Maughs, G. M. B. (George Madison Brown), 1821-1901.Date: 1879
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Placenta from a ewe with ewzootic abortion.
Royal Veterinary College
