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My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
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Migraine, creativity and me
Novelist Lydia Ruffles explores how migraine has made her mind stretch, shrink, widen and change, and how it’s influenced her art.
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How music opens the doors of memory and the mind
People living with dementia can often still listen, perform or move to music. What does this tell us about how memories are formed?
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Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
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On the hypodermic administration of remedies in neuralgia and other affections : being a paper read before the St. George's Medical Society, on Decmeber 9th, 1858 / by Charles Hunter. Also a paper on the respiration therapeutically considered in certain cerebral conditions, read at the Western Medical Society, January 20th, 1860, and the St. George's Medical Society, February 2d, 1860.
Hunter, Charles, 1834 or 1835-1878.Date: 1860- Audio
3-day course on obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia for obstetricians and anaesthetists : 31 October - 2 November 1995.
Date: 1993- Pictures
Myositis ossificans in hemiplegia, in a 74-year old woman: detail sketch of swelling below right groin. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1953.
Nicholson, BarbaraDate: 1953Reference: 34744iPart of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.