Stories
- Article
Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
- In pictures
Testimonies of birth
A 1980s film about childbirth explores how the experience felt for the women featured and offers a glimpse into the big birthing trends of the day.
- Article
Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
- Article
The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
Catalogue
- Books
Anaesthesia in early California / Selma Harrison Calmes.
Calmes, Selma Harrison.Date: 1989- Books
Anaesthesia in the history of Islamic medicine / M. Taha Jasser.
Jasser, A. Taha.Date: 1989- Books
Anaesthesia in a teaching hospital sixty years ago / J. Alfred Lee.
Lee, J. Alfred (John Alfred)Date: 1989- Books
Anaesthesia in ancient times : fact and fable / J.F. Nunn.
Nunn, J. F.Date: 1989- Books
Anaesthesia in the Netherlands from the thirties to 1948 / M. Mauve.
Mauve, M.Date: 1989