Stories
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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.
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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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The science of why things spread
From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
Catalogue
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Geschichte der Volksseuchen : nach und mit den Berichten der Zeitgenossen, mit Berücksichtigung der Thierseuchen / von B.M. Lersch.
Date: 1896- Books
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A history of epidemic pestilences from the earliest ages, 1495 years before the birth of our Saviour to 1848 : with researches into their nature, causes, and prophylaxis / by Edward Bascome.
Date: 1851- Books
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The history of cholera in Exeter in 1832 / by Thomas Shapter.
Date: 1849- Books
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Influenza, or, Epidemic catarrhal fever : an historical survey of past epidemics in Great Britain from 1510-1890 / by E. Symes Thompson.
Date: 1890- Books
Épidémies - fléaux / [directeur de la publication : J. Pigeaud].
Date: [1986]