Stories
- Article
Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
- Article
A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
- Article
Bubbles of history
Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.
Catalogue
- Digital Images
- Online
Cylinder seal and sketch depicting Nergal, God of plague.
- Digital Images
- Online
Cylinder seal showing Adad, god who causes colds and rheums.
- Digital Images
- Online
Anaesthesia: Nitrous Oxide Cylinder, 1870
- Digital Images
- Online
Anaesthesia: Nitrous Oxide Cylinder, 1939.
- Books
- Online
Ueber ein Cylinder-Epitheliom des Coecum ... / vorgelegt von Wilhelm Floss.
Floss, Wilhelm.Date: 1889