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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science
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Getting the measure of pain
In the 20th century doctors tried to find a way to measure pain. But even when ‘objective’ measures were rejected, an accurate understanding of another’s pain remained frustratingly elusive.
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"Salicylic Acid and Menthol Ether"
Date: 1919Reference: WF/C/RD/3/4Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Notes on salicylic acid / by John A. Erskine Stuart.
Stuart, John A. Erskine.Date: [1876]- Archives and manuscripts
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Copy of a printed molecular diagram and Fourier map showing Patterson function of salicylic acid referenced as "salicylic acid Patterson"
Arnott, Struther, 1934-Date: February 1965Reference: KDBP/1/1/6297Part of: King's College London Department of Biophysics- Digital Images
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Gaultheria procumbens Kalm Ericaeae. Wintergreen, teaberry, boxberry, chickerberry. Distribution: North American forests. Named for French physician/botanist Jean Francois Gaultier (1708-1756). Physician to the French King, emigrated to Quebec in 1742. Researched flora of North America, died of typhus (Oakeley, 2012). Source of oil of wintergreen. Ten pounds of oil can be extracted from a ton of leaves. Toxic effects: Stupidity, swelling of the tongue, food craving, epigastric tenderness, vomiting, dyspnoea, hot skin, tachycardia, restlessness (MiIlspaugh, 1974). Active chemical is methyl salicylate. Used topically for musculo-skeletal conditions, it is converted to salicylic acid when absorbed. Excess use has caused a death. Salicylic acid is also used for warts and corns (first described by Dioscorides in 70CE)
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
On a new chemical theory and researches on salicylic acid / [Archibald Scott Couper].
Couper, Archibald Scott, 1831-1892.Date: 1953