Stories
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The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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Heating up and drying out
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
Catalogue
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Bibliography of the history of medicine of the United States and Canada - 1954 / edited by Genevieve Miller.
Date: [1955]- Books
The Potomac River basin : geographic history - rainfall and stream flow - pollution, typhoid fever, and character of water - relation of soils and forest cover to quality and quantity of surface water - effect of industrial wastes on fishes / by Horatio N. Parker, Bailey Willis, R.H. Bolster, W.W. Ashe, and M.C. Marsh.
Parker, Horatio N. (Horatio Newton), 1871-1946.Date: 1907- Books
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A sketch of the history of obstetrics in the United States up to 1860 / by J. Whitridge Williams.
Williams, J. Whitridge (John Whitridge), 1866-1931.Date: [1903]- Books
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Report on trichinae and trichinosis / United States Marine Hospital Service ; prepared, under direction of the supervising Surgeon-General, by W.C.W. Glazier.
United States. Marine Hospital Service.Date: 1881- Books
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The medical and surgical history of the war of the rebellion (1861-65) / prepared, in accordance with the acts of Congress, under the direction of Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States Army.
Barnes, Joseph K., 1817-1883.Date: 1875-1879