Stories
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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.
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
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The seizure dog
Aparna Nair's dog Charlie made her feel safe in the world. His uncanny ability to sense when she was about to experience a seizure also gave her an unexpected ally in her struggles with epilepsy.
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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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Popliteal aneurism treated by a new method of compression / reported by A.F. Sawyer (by permission) at the meeting of the San Francisco (Cal.) Medical Benevolent Society, Feb. 21st, 1879.
Sawyer, A. F.Date: [1879]- Archives and manuscripts
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Harold Brunn Society for Medical Research, Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco
Date: 1982Reference: PP/CRI/K/1/13Part of: Francis Crick (1916-2004): archives- Books
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Medical history of the year 1868, in California / A paper read before the "Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement," February 16th, 1869, and published by order of the Society.
Logan, Thos. M. (Thomas Muldrup), 1808-1876.Date: 1869- Books
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Burns and scalds, their treatment, with cases : read before the Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement, June 25th, 1872 / by Jos. F. Montgomery, M.D.
Montgomery, Joseph Fauntleroy, 1812-1883.Date: 1872- Books
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The ethics of the medical profession : read before the Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement / by Joseph F. Montgomery.
Montgomery, Joseph Fauntleroy, 1812-1883.Date: 1871