Stories
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Healing hard-working hands
The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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A quick guide to drugs, the brain and brain chemistry
Discover some of the major chemicals that govern activity in our brains, how they work, and why certain drugs have the effects they do.
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Is it really OK to not be OK?
Our mental healthcare system is still the poor relation of services that treat physical illness, and the pandemic has shone a spotlight on this situation. Campaigner James Downs argues for fundamental change.
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A seasonable check to the fury of an unfledg'd minister of the Gospel. In a letter to the Reverend Mr. T- - - - - - - A very young Glóstershire Clergyman. Written by Mr. J- - - - - - - - A very young Wiltshire Layman. Occasion'd by the former's falsly charging the latter with Atheism. In which are interspers'd some Observations on Atheism and Superstition, together with a Hint or two to the Professors of Christianity in general.
J- - - - - - - -, Mr.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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A treatise of the cholick; containing analytical proofs of its many causes, and Mechanical Explanations of its several Symptoms and Accidents, according to the newest and most rational Principles: together with its cure at large. By John Purcell, M.D.
Purcell, John, approximately 1674-1730.Date: MDCCXIV. [1714]- Books
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A treatise of the cholick; containing analytical proofs of its many causes, and Mechanical Explanations of its several Symptoms and Accidents, according to the newest and most rational Principles: Together with its Cure at large. The second edition. By John Purcell, M.D.
Purcell, John, approximately 1674-1730.Date: MDCCXV. [1715]- Books
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A treatise of vapours, or hysterick fits. Containing An Analytical Proof of its Causes, Mechanical Explanations of all its Symptoms and Accidents, according to the Newest and most Rational Principles. Together with its Cure at large. The second edition, revis'd and augmented. By John Purcell, M.D.
Purcell, John, approximately 1674-1730.Date: 1707- Books
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Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de palpitatione; quam, Annuente Summo Numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, D. Georgii Baird, SS. T. P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti; necnon Amplissimi Senatus Academici Consensu; et Nobilissimae Facultatis Medicae Decreto; pro gradu doctoris, Summisque in Medicina Honoribus ac privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Thomas Emerson Headlam, Anglus: Societ. Reg. Med. Edin. Soc. Extr. Et Nuper Praeses Annus; Societ. Nat. Stud. Edin. Praes. Ann. Necnon Societ. Spec. Soc. Ad diem 24. Junii, hora locoque solitis.
Headlam, Thomas Emerson, 1777-1864.Date: MDCCC. [1800]