Stories
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A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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Historie en gedenkschriften van de maatschappy : tot redding van drenkelingen, opgerecht binnen Amsterdam MDCCLXVII.
Maatschappij tot Redding van Drenkelingen.Date: MDCCLXXX [1780]- Books
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Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de Vita Submersorum Resuscitanda. Quam, annuente summo numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, D. Gulielmi Robertson, S. T. P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti; nec non Amplissimi senatus academici consensu, Et nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto; pro gradu doctoris, summisque in medicina honoribus ac privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Jacobus Davidson, Scotus. Ad diem 25. Junii, hora locoque solitis.
Davidson, James, M.D.Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]- Books
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A collection of authentic cases, proving the practicability of recovering persons visibly dead by drowning, suffocation, stifling, swooning, convulsions, and other accidents. By Alexander Johnson, M. D. When any Discovery of real Utility to the World is made, it is the Duty of every Man to render it as universally known and beneficial as possible.
Johnson, Alexander, 1715 or 1716-1799.Date: 1775?]- Books
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News from the dead, or, A true and exact narration of the miraculous deliverance of Anne Greene : who being executed at Oxford Decemb. 14. 1650 afterwards revived; and by the care of certain [p]hysicians there, is now perfectly recovered. : Together with the manner of her suffering, and the particular means used for her recovery. / Written by a schollar in Oxford for the satisfaction of a friend, who desired to be informed concerning the truth of the businesse. : Whereunto are added certain [p]oems, casually written upon that subject.
Watkins, Richard, 1623 or 1624-1708Date: 1651- Books
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An account of some societies at Amsterdam and Hamburgh for the recovery of drowned persons, and of similar institutions at Venice, Milan, Padua, Vienna, and Paris; with a collection of authentic cases, Proving The Practicability Of Extending The Benefits Of Their Practice To The Recovery Of Persons Visibly Dead BY Sudden Stoppages Of Breath, Suffocation, Stifling, Swooning, Convulsions, And Other Accidents. By Alexander Johnson, M.D.
Johnson, Alexander, 1715 or 1716-1799.Date: 1773?]