Stories
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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.
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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.
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Searching for a place to call home
Wherever she’s lived, Tanya Perdikou has rarely felt at home, and numerous moves have perpetuated a sense of disconnection. But signs from nature offer powerful moments of connection.
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The extraction of the excruciating bladder stones
Among those vying to find alternatives to major surgery for bladder stones, young doctor Jean Civiale stood out, painstakingly honing a method that was to become the norm.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
User Guide to Anaesthetic & Intensive Care Equiptment
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1998Reference: GC/253/A/42/7/3Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Books
- Online
"Fluothane" : a report to the Medical Research Council by the Committee on Non-Explosive Anaesthetic Agents.
Date: [1957?]- E-journals
- Online
British journal of anaesthetic and recovery nursing
Date: 2000-2013- Books
The action of fluothane : a new volatile anaesthetic / J. Raventós.
Raventós, J.Date: 1956- Archives and manuscripts
International standards for anaesthetic containers and related matters
Date: c.1940sReference: SA/BMA/B.5Part of: British Medical Association