Stories
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Born different
For Chris North, being born intersex in the 1940s meant his many childhood hospital visits, tests and operations were not explained or discussed. As he reveals, doctors encouraged strict secrecy.
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Air of threat
Novelist Chloe Aridjis vividly describes the suffocating atmosphere of Mexico City, as a combination of topography, crowded neighbourhoods, and reckless political diktats create a downward spiral.
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The shape of thought
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.
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Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
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Extraction of hard cataract - death on the fifth day - examination of the eye / by Henry D. Noyes.
Noyes, Henry D. (Henry Drury), 1832?-1900.Date: [1886]- Audio
Examination of the eye.
Date: 1963- Audio
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Examination of the eye.
Date: 1963- Videos
Working for patients?.
Date: 1991- Books
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Grammaticæ quæstiones: or a grammatical examination, by question only: for the use of schools; particularly those where the Eton grammar is taught. Humbly offered to the Public, as the most effectual Way of laying a solid classical Foundation; and obviating the many Inconveniences arising from a supersicial Knowledge of the Grammar. By the Rev. N. Morgan, Late Fellow of King's-College, Cambridge, and now Master of the Grammar-School, in the City of Bath.
Morgan, Nathaniel, 1740-1811.Date: 1794