Stories
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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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Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
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Outline of a comprehensive plan for diverting the sewage of London and Westminster from the Thames and applying it to agricultural purposes, for improving the navigation of the river, and for establishing a supply of pure water to the metropolis / by John Martin.
Martin, John, 1789-1854.Date: 1850- Books
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Report on the Wey valley floods in relation to public health / by the Consulting Medical Officer.
Surrey (England). County Council.Date: 1913- Books
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The new seaman's guide, and coaster's companion, Containing complete sailing directions for ships, both outward and homeward bound, through the River Thames, and all its entrances, the British and Bristol Channels, on both coasts, including all the harbours; the coast of Wales; West Coasts of England and Scotland; the South coasts of Ireland; and the islands of Man, Scilly, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, &c. Also the East Coast of Great Britain, with the Orkney, Shetland, and Western Islands; the Coasts of Flanders, Holland, and Germany; the North Sea, Cattegat, Sound, Baltic, gulf of Finland, and northern navigation to the White Sea. And all the useful tables, viz. tables of the magnetic courses, and distances from place to place, for all the Coasts of Europe, and many of Africa and Asia: with the variations. A table of the distances by water, in miles, from London to the principal ports in Great Britain, Ireland, part of France, Flanders, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, throughout the Baltic and the Mediterrean. Copious tables of latitudes and longitudes, from the best and latest observations: and improved and corrected tide tables; to which are subjoined, easy methods of sinding the Epagt, the moon's age, and the day of new moon. A new and correct edition: improved and augmented by many important additions and observations from new surveys. By John Diston, M. Downie, master in the Royal Navy, and Alexander Ingram,teacher of Navigation and mathematics in Leith, and author of the newly much improved and corrected edition of Simson's Euclid; as also of the principles of geography, and of the corrected and enlarged edition of Hutton's arithmetic and key.
Diston, John.Date: 1800- Books
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Report on a survey of the River Thames from Boulter's lock to the city stone near Staines and on the best method of improving the navigation of the said River, and making it into as compleat a state of perfection as it is capable of. By Robert Mylne, F. R. S. Engineer
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed for Improving and Completing the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis.Date: 24th August 1793- Books
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A report of the committee of comissioners of the navigation of the Thames and Isis, appointed to survey the rivers from Lechlade to Whitchurch, by the general meeting held 31st of May, 1791.
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed for Improving and Completing the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]