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Are doctors medical detectives?
Do doctors really identify medical conditions in the same way that detectives solve crimes? Neurologist Jules Montague makes her diagnosis.
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Living with early onset Parkinson’s
Ten years ago, three little words changed Pete Langman’s world.
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On contagion
Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.
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The first seizure
Historian Aparna Nair had her first seizure when she was 11. Here she recalls that first time, and how other people’s reactions are sometimes the most disturbing part about having a seizure.
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A special report of the General Committee of the London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye : in which certain pretensions of Sir William Adams, advanced in the official papers published by order of the hon. directors of Greenwich Hospital, lately submitted to a medical committee, appointed by government, and affecting the rights of the Infirmary, and the merits of the late John Cunningham Saunders, Esq. its founder and surgeon, are examined and disproved by the correspondence of Mr. Saunders, and other documents.
London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye.Date: 1815- Archives and manuscripts
Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.110 Eye Disease - Blindness #1
Date: 1928-2013Reference: EPH751:110Part of: Gwen Prout Stamp Collection- Books
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A plain discourse, on the causes, symptoms, nature, and cure, of the prevailing epidemical disease, termed influenza. / By John Herdman.
Herdman, John, 1762?-1842.Date: 1803- Books
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The female's medical guide and married woman's adviser : containing a description of the causes, symptoms and cure of diseases peculiar to females, whether married or single, from early childhood to old age, such as retention, suppression and cessation of the menses - difficult and irregular menstruation - pregnancy, its indications and attendant diseases - miscarriage or abortion - midwifery, the turn of life -causes and cure of barrennness, and female complaints generally. The whole adapted to the private use of families / by H. B. Skinner.
Skinner, Henry Burchstead, active 1849.Date: 1849