Stories
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The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
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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.
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The stranger who started an epidemic
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
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My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
Catalogue
- Journals
The transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association.
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Report of the section appointed to enquire into the present state of vaccination, as read at the anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Liverpool, July 25, 1839, and ordered to be printed for general circulation / [John Baron].
Baron, John, 1786-1851.Date: 1840- Books
Address at the proceedings of the second anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association / [John Johnstone].
Johnstone, John, 1768-1836Date: 1837- Books
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Report of the fourteenth anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical & Surgical Association, held at Norwich, Aug. 19 and 20, 1846. President John Green Crosse.
Date: 1846- Books
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A report on the treatment of burns and scalds / drawn up at the request of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Samuel Crompton.
Crompton, Samuel Willard.Date: 1851