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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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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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How to design an HIV awareness campaign
Using carefully crafted, colourful graphics is one public health team’s creative approach.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Considerations on the nature, causes, cure, and prevention of pestilences; being a Collection of Papers, Published on that Subject by The Free - Thinker.
Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]- Books
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De morbo epidemico : tam hujus, quàm superioris, anni, id est, 1678 & 1679, narratio / auctore Ch. Love Morley ; cui accessit clarissim. & sapientiff. viri, D. Lucæ Schacht ... de eodem morbo ad auctorem epistolica narratio sanè quàm doctissima.
Morley, Christopher LoveDate: 1680- Books
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A brief history of epidemic and pestilential diseases; with the principal phenomena of the physical world, which precede and accompany them, and observations deduced from the facts stated. In two volumes. By Noah Webster, author of Dissertations on the English language and several other works--member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences--of the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts and Manufactures, in the state of New-York--of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and corresponding member of the Historical Society in Massachusetts. ...
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.Date: 1799. (Published according to act of Congress)- Books
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Considerations on the means of preventing the communication of pestilential contagion, and of eradicating it in infected places. By William Brownrigg, M.D. F.R.S.
Brownrigg, William, 1711-1800.Date: M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]- Books
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Observations on epidemical disorders, with remarks on nervous and malignant fevers. By James Sims, M.D.
Sims, James.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]