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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 castration effect
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
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Die Entwicklung der Adergeflechte : ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des Gehirnes / von Jul. Kollmann.
Kollmann, Julius, 1834-1918.Date: 1861- Books
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On the development of the great anterior veins in man and Mammalia : including an account of certain remnants of foetal structure found in the adult, a comparative view of those great veins in the different Mammalia, and an analysis of their occasional peculiarities in the human subject / by John Marshall ; communicated by Professor Sharpey.
Marshall, John, 1818-1891.Date: 1850- Books
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A treatise on varicose capillaries : as constituting the structure of carcinoma of the hepatic ducts, and developing the law and treatment of morbid growths, with an account of a new form of the pus globule / by Thomas Gordon Hake.
Hake, Thomas Gordon, 1809-1895.Date: 1839- Archives and manuscripts
[Haemangiectatic hypertrophy of limbs etc.]
Date: 1932-1952Reference: PP/FPW/B.129/2Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Books
Selections from the writings of John Hunter / [compiled by Emerson Crosby Kelly].
Hunter, John, 1728-1793.Date: Jan. 1940