Stories
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
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Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life
Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.
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The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
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The soul in the stomach
A 17th-century physician’s controversial theory about the link between the emotions and the stomach reminds us that we shouldn’t ignore our ‘gut feelings’.
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A guide to the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 : containing a legal and general exposition of the Act, with suggestions to local authorities, managers and others for the organization and administration of the work dealing with the mentally defective / by John Wormald and Samuel Wormald ; with a preface by T. Edmund Harvey.
Wormald, John.Date: [1914?]- Books
Health needs of society : a challenge for medical education / editors A. Gellhorn, T. Fülöp & Z. Bankowski.
CIOMS Round Table Conference 1976 : Ulm, Germany)Date: 1977- Archives and manuscripts
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Papers of M H F Wilkins: correspondence chiefly relating to the policy and administration of the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science
British Society for Social Responsibility of Science (BSSRS) Jepson, Trevor B. Maddox, John, 1925-2009 Rowntree Trust Kornberg, Hans, b.1928 Krebs, Hans A., 1900-1981 Wilkins, Maurice, 1916-2004 Humphrey, J.H. Oliver, Edward Dickson, David Latham, Barbara, b.1928 Monod, Jacques, 1910-1976 Adams, Winifred Chambers, V. Cherns, A. B. Cartwright, John G. Boodle, Hatfield & Co. Hipkin, John Martin, Carol Saddler, Hugh Standley, K. J. Fairbairns, Zoe, b.1948 Dalton, Alan J. P. Wyatt, H. V. Bird, R. A. Hamlyn, Edward C. Benthall, Jonathan Clutterbuck, Charlie Walker, Judith Gray, Pamela Griffiths, Dot Glander, Sandra A. Kramer & Co. Rosenhead, Jonathan Loustau-Lalanne, Bernard Chitnis, Pratap Gruhier, Fabian Dittmann, Roger United States Federation of Scientists and Scholars Dixon, BernardDate: 1972-1989Reference: K/PP178/11/1/25Part of: Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004)- Books
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Proceedings of the National Medical Conventions, held in New York, May, 1846, and in Philadelphia, May, 1847.
American Medical Association.Date: 1847- Journals
Antibiotics annual : proceedings of the Symposium on Antibiotics / sponsored by U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Food and Drug Administration, Division of Antibiotics in collaboration with the journal Antibiotics & chemotherapy.
Symposium on Antibiotics.Date: 1953-1960