Stories
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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Bleeding healthy
For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.
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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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Histoire generale et particuliere des anomalies de l'organisation chez l'homme et les animaux : ouvrage comprenant des recherches sur les caracteres, la classification, l'influence physiologique et pathologique, les rapports generaux, les lois et les causes de monstruosites, des varietes et vices de conformation, ou traite de teratologie / par Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.
Date: 1832-1837- Books
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On joint-diseases : their pathology diagnosis and treatment : including the nature and treatment of deformities, and curvatures of the spine / by Holmes Coote.
Date: 1867- Books
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Die Geburten missgestalleter, kranker und todter Kinder / Anton Friedrich Hohl.
Hohl Anton Friedrich.Date: 1850- Books
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On the effects of volcanic action in the production of epidemic diseases in the animal and in the vegetable creation, and in the production of hurricanes and abnormal atmospheric vicissitudes : the Parkin prize essay of 1901 / by W. G. Aitchison Robertson.
Date: 1901- Videos
Disorders of the skeletal system : spondylolisthesis.
Date: 1976