Stories
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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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Appointments with plants
In our ‘always on’ culture, poet Elizabeth-Jane Burnett find a route away from screens – by following the ways of the trees and plants outside.
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Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
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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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The circulation time in the cat, studied by a conductivity method / by J.A.B. Gray and W.D.M. Paton.
Gray, J. A. B.Date: [1949?]- Videos
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William Harvey and the circulation of the blood.
Date: 1978- Videos
Atherosclerosis : treatment of hyperlipidaemia.
Date: 1975- Videos
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The macrophage.
Date: 1975- Videos
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Lamb dysentery.
Date: 1948