Stories
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
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Beating the bodysnatchers
When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.
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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?
Catalogue
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Report of the Committee appointed to consider what changes, if any, are desirable in the existing law, practice and procedure relating to criminal trials in which the plea of insanity as a defence is raised, and whether any and, if so, what changes should be made in the existing law and practice in respect of cases falling within the provisions of section 2 (4) of the Criminal Lunatics Act, 1884.
Great Britain. Committee on Insanity and Crime.Date: 1923- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the administrative procedures for controlling danger to man through the use as food of the meat and milk of tuberculous animals.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Tuberculosis.Date: 1898- Books
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Sir John Gonson's five charges to several grand juries, viz. I. To the grand jury of the city and liberty of Westminster, &c. at the General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace, held April 24, 1728. II. To the grand jury of the said city and liberty at the General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace, held July 11, 1728. III. To the grand jury of the royalty of the Tower of London, and the Liberties and Precincts thereof, at the General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace, held for the said Royalty, July 16, 1728. IV. To the grand jury of the city and liberty of Westminster, &c. at the General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace, held October 9, 1728. V. To the grand jury of the said city and liberty, at the General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace, held July 3, 1729. Printed at the Desire of the Justices of the Peace in both the said Commissions, and of the respective grand juries.
Gonson, John, Sir, -1765.Date: 1730- Books
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The crown Circuit Companion; containing the practice of the assises on the Crown Side, and of the Courts of General and General Quarter Sessions of the Peace: wherein is included, A collection of Useful and Modern Precedents of Indictments in Criminal Cases; as well at Common Law, as those created by Statute. Under all Which Precedents, so much of the Common and Statute Laws is set forth, as to shew the several Offences; the Offenders Punishment; and in what Cases Felons are to have, or not to have the Benefit of Clergy. With References to the Printed Authorities. By W. Stubbs, and G. Talmash, of Staples Inn, Gentlemen.
Stubbs, W.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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An abridgment of penal statutes, which exhibits at one view the offences, and the punishments or penalties, in consequence of those offences, the mode of recovering, and application of the penalties, the number of witnesses, and the jurisdiction necessary to the several convictions, And the Chapters and Sections of the enacting Statutes, Including the Fifth Session of the Seventeenth Parliament, 1795. The fourth edition, with large additions and annotations: To which are Subjoined, Extracted from Reporters of the best Authority, and inserted under their proper Heads, A great Uariety of Adjudged Cases. and to the Whole is Annexed, a table of contents. By William Addington, Esq. Of the Public Office in Bow Street, whose Name, in his own writing, together with the Number of the Copy, will be affixed to each Volume disposed of by his Authority.
Addington, William, Sir, -1811.Date: 1795