Stories
- Article
How electromagnetic therapy inspired me
Poet Sarah James explores how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treated her depression and influenced her art.
- In pictures
A medical history of smoking, from cure to killer
Today smoking is seen publicly as a deadly vice, privately perhaps as more of a guilty pleasure. Follow tobacco’s journey over the centuries from medical remedy to killer carcinogen.
- Article
A flat-packed forest
The regular ritual of creating seasonally changing mini-forests for her indoor cats brought Abi Palmer a focus for reflection while the cats explored.
- In pictures
Advice for (medieval) old age
Whether it was an abstemious, pious preparation for death or drinking gold in the quest for eternal life, those seeking advice on what best to do in their later years were never short of inspiration.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'Stimulation of piriform and neocortical tissues in an in vitro flow system: metabolic properties and release of putative neurotransmitters', Journal of Neurochemistry, 17 (1970), 521-530. Abstract, discussion, references, figures etc
Date: 1970Reference: PP/MCI/D/19Part of: McIlwain, Henry- Books
Stimulation in early infancy : proceedings of a C.A.S.D.S. Study Group on "The functions of stimulation in early postnatal development" held jointly with the Ciba Foundation, London, November 1967, being the first study group in a C. A. S. D. S. programme on "The origins of human behaviour" / edited by Anthony Ambrose.
C.A.S.D.S. Study Group on the Functions of Stimulation in Early Postnatal Development (1967 : London, England)Date: 1969- Archives and manuscripts
'Therapeutic Electrical Stimulation. The Transistorized Placebo?' by J A V Bates
Date: 1978Reference: GC/179/A.146Part of: Bates, John A.V., and the Ratio Club- Archives and manuscripts
'Analysis of the Responses of the Isolated Stomach to Electrical Stimulation and to Drugs'
Vane, Sir John, FRS (1927-2004), PharmacologistDate: 1962-1963Reference: PP/JRV/C/1/3Part of: Vane, Sir John Robert (1927-2004)- Archives and manuscripts
'Relaxations of the Isolated Portal Vein of the Rabbit Induced by Nicotine and Electrical Stimulation'
Vane, Sir John, FRS (1927-2004), PharmacologistDate: 1970Reference: PP/JRV/C/4/8Part of: Vane, Sir John Robert (1927-2004)