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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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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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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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A dissertation on the inutility of the amputation of limbs. Written in Latin, by M. Bilguer, Surgeon General to the Armies of the King of Prussia. Augmented with the notes of Mr. Tissot , Physician at Lusanne. Now first translated into English, by a surgeon.
Bilguer, Johann Ulrich, 1720-1796.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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Mr. Penny's dishonourable breach of trust exemplified, at an amputation of a thigh: being called as an assistant to that operation, by John Thorpe, surgeon.
Thorpe, John, surgeon.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXXI. [1721]- Books
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The ligature preferable to agaric, in securing the blood-vessels after amputations: In which the dangerous and fatal consequences that may attend a dependence upon the latter, are offered to the consideration of surgeons; and the experiments made at Paris by Monsieur Faget, and at London by Mr. Warner, proved to be insufficient to authorize such a practice. By Henry Parker of Sandwich, sometime surgeon of the Royal Navy.
Parker, Henry, naval surgeon.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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A concise and impartial account of the advantages arising to the public: from the general use of a new method of amputation. By Mr. O'Halloran, surgeon.
O'Halloran, Sylvester, 1728-1807.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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Currus triumphalis, è terebinthô, or, An account of the many admirable vertues of oleum terebinthinæ : more particularly, of the good effects produced by its application to recent wounds, especially with respect to the hemorrhagies of the veins, and arteries, and the no less pernicious weepings of the nerves, and lymphaducts : wherein also, the common methods, and medicaments, used to restrain hemorrhagies, are examined, and divers of them censured : and lastly, a new way of amputation, and a speedier convenient method of curing stumps, than that commonly practised, is with divers other useful matters recommended to the military chirurgeon, in two letters : the one to his most honoured, James Pearse, Esq, chirurgeon to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, and chirurgeon general to His Majestie's Navy Royal : the other, to Mr. Thomas Hobbs, chirurgeon in London / by James Yonge.
Yonge, James, 1647-1721Date: 1679