Stories
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Chillies and the trouble with Scoville
Measuring the heat of these peppers can leave you a little lukewarm.
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What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
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Getting the measure of pain
In the 20th century doctors tried to find a way to measure pain. But even when ‘objective’ measures were rejected, an accurate understanding of another’s pain remained frustratingly elusive.
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The leukaemia diagnosis I didn’t see coming
Treatment for leukaemia kept journalist Hannah Partos in isolation, like the female prisoner whose image inspired her to write this piece.
Catalogue
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Studies of burns and scalds / reports of the Burns Unit, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, 1942-43.
Date: 1945- Archives and manuscripts
"A Burns Unit at the Birmingham Accident Hospital", L Colebrook, Nursing Times, Jan 6, 1945
Date: 1945Reference: PP/COL/C.2/31Part of: Colebrook, Leonard, FRS, FRCOG, FRCS (1883-1967), bacteriologist- Archives and manuscripts
Birmingham Burns Unit
Date: 1943-1948Reference: PP/COL/A.9Part of: Colebrook, Leonard, FRS, FRCOG, FRCS (1883-1967), bacteriologist- Archives and manuscripts
"Burns and Scalds in the Home", L Colebrook, Monthly Bulletin of the Ministry of Health and the Emergency Public Health Laboratory Service, Oct 1946
Date: 1946Reference: PP/COL/C.2/23Part of: Colebrook, Leonard, FRS, FRCOG, FRCS (1883-1967), bacteriologist- Books
Management of the Cocoanut Grove burns at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Massachusetts General Hospital.Date: [1943], ©1943