Stories
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The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
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The evolution of the horse / by William D. Matthew.
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930.Date: [1903]- Books
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Notes on early portraits of John Banister, of William Harvey, and the Barber-Surgeons' visceral lecture in 1581 / by D'Arcy Power.
Power, D'Arcy, 1855-1941.Date: 1912- Archives and manuscripts
A History of the Journal International Abstracts of Biological Sciences
Date: 1953-1973Reference: GC/266/2Part of: <i>International Abstracts of Biological Sciences</i> and <i>Archives of Oral Biology</i>- Books
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On the objects and management of provincial museums : an address delivered at Canterbury, October, 1871, to a meeting of the East Kent Natural History Society / by George Gulliver.
Gulliver, George, 1804-1882.Date: [1871]- Books
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History and description of the skeleton of a new sperm whale, lately set up in the Australian Museum / by William S. Wall ; together with some account of a new genus of sperm whales called Euphysetes.
Wall, William Sheridan, 1815-1876.Date: 1851