Stories
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
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Lymph-stasis, or, Retardation of lymph, as an element in the causation of disease : especially in regard to scrofula and tuberculosis / by Wayland C. Chaffey.
Date: 1890- Books
Extrapulmonary tuberculosis in the United States.
Date: 1978- Books
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Scrofulosis / by G. Cornet ; translated from the 2nd German ed. by J.E. Bullock.
Cornet, Georg, 1858-1915.Date: 1914- Books
Scrofulosis / by G. Cornet ; translated from the 2nd German edition by J.E. Bullock.
Cornet, Georg, 1858-1915.Date: 1914- Books
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Lymph-stasis, or, Retardation of lymph, as an element in the causation of disease : especially in regard to scrofula and tuberculosis / by Wayland C. Chaffey.
Chaffey, Wayland C.Date: 1890