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Medics, migration and the NHS

In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.

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A history of mindfulness

Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.

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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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A brief history of tattoos

The earliest evidence of tattoo art dates from 5000 BC, and the practice continues to hold meaning for many cultures around the world.

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  • Bulletin of the Society of Medical History of Chicago.
  • Conference of the German society for medical history, meeting in Homburg, Germany, 1927: delegates. Photograph by T.H. Voigt, 1927.
  • A dissertation on the natural history and medicinal effects of the secale cornutum, or ergot / By Oliver Prescott. Read at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, June 2, 1813.
  • A dissertation on the natural history and medicinal effects of the secale cornutum, or ergot / By Oliver Prescott. Read at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, June 2, 1813.
  • Stokesia laevis Greene Asteraceae. Stoke's Aster, Cornflower Aster. Distribution: South-eastern USA. Named by Charles Louis L’Héritier in 1789 for Dr Jonathan Stokes (1755-1831), a member of the Lunar Society and Linnean Society, botanist and physician. Stokes dedicated his thesis on dephlogisticated air [later realised to be oxygen] to Dr William Withering and wrote the preface to Withering’s iconic work On the Foxglove (1785). He also contributed histories on six patients he had treated for heart failure (‘dropsy’) with foxglove leaf, Digitalis, in his medical practice in Stourbridge. He continued at the Lunar Society until 1788
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