Stories
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Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
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A story of death, trauma and austerity
Marienna Pope-Weidemann, whose teenage cousin Gaia died after going missing, advocates a rethink of our systems, which currently fail many in mental distress.
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Paris Morgue and a public spectacle of death
Known as the “only free theatre in Paris”, La Morgue was a popular place for the public to view cadavers on display.
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Designing death in the virtual city
Danger and death are fun when they’re virtual – and when they incorporate realistic elements. Now the tables are turned, as urban planners learn from game environments.
Catalogue
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Cardiovascular physiology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / [Jerome Joseph Bylebyl].
Bylebyl, Jerome J. (Jerome Joseph), 1943-Date: [1976]- Ephemera
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Death-rates in pneumonia increase with alcoholic habits.
Date: [1912?]- Books
Recent mortality trends in Chile : a study of the trend of the death rate in Chile with consideration of sex, age, and cause groups and selected socioeconomic factors.
National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)Date: 1964- Books
Infant and perinatal mortality in Scotland : analysis of infant mortality trends in Scotland by age at death, sex of child, cause of death, social class, and geographic region; maternal mortality trends ; stillbirth and perinatal mortality trends; effect of illegitimacy on infant mortality; historical and geographical background of Scotland ; and discussion of Scotland's maternal and child welfare policies.
National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)Date: 1966- Books
Changes in mortality trends: England and Wales, 1931-1961 : a study of trends in the death rates in England and Wales analyzed by sex, age, and cause of death as part of a survey of trends in the United States and other countries.
National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)Date: 1965