Stories
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Fees, funding and the NHS
In the 1950s, dramatic political battles over NHS charges brought down a government. But public confidence in the service still grew.
Catalogue
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Report of the Committee on the Relations of Alcohol to Medicine / by John Bell.
American Medical Association. Committee on the Relations of Alcohol to Medicine.Date: 1869- Books
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Report of the Committee on Medical Sciences : presented at the third annual meeting of the American Medical Association, Cincinnati, May, 1850 / by Usher Parsons.
Parsons, Usher, 1788-1868.Date: 1850- Books
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First report of the Committee on Public Hygiene of the American Medical Association. Read at the Annual Meeting, held in Boston, May, 1849. : With an appendix, containing sketches o f the sanitary condition of the cities of Concord, Portland, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Lowell, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, Louisville, and Cincinnati.
American Medical Association. Committee on Public Hygiene.Date: 1849- Books
A symposium on human malaria : with special reference to North America and the Caribbean region / Publication committee: Mark F. Boyd [and others] ; edited by Forest Ray Moulton.
Date: 1941- Books
Cardiovascular physiology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / [Jerome Joseph Bylebyl].
Bylebyl, Jerome J. (Jerome Joseph), 1943-Date: [1976]