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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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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Yoga adapts to time and place
A yoga teacher in 1930s India inspired today’s transnational practice with his spectacular fusion of tradition and innovation.
Catalogue
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Nedwill : that 'peppery' Irish surgeon : New Zealand's outstanding public health pioneer / Geoffrey W. Rice.
Rice, GeoffreyDate: 2022- Archives and manuscripts
Crichton, Douglas - Sanquhar and the Crichtons
Date: 1907Reference: DGH1/10/1/12Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Books
Arztpraxen im Vergleich : 18. - 20. Jahrhundert / Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum [and others] (Hrsg.).
Date: 2008- Journals
Research newsletter / College of General Practitioners.
Date: 1953-- Books
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The life of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Containing the genealogy of our glorious redeemer, Nativity, Preservation, Circumcision, Baptism, Fasting, Temptation, Ministry, Doctrine, Calling the Apostles, Miracles, Parables, Travels, Transfiguration, Passion, Institution of the Sacrament, Crucifixion, Burial, Resurrection, Appearance, and Ascension. Together with the lives and sufferings of his holy apostles, evangelists, and other primitive martyrs, Who have laid down their Lives in the glorious Cause of Christianity, the Foundation on which all our Hopes of Eternal Happiness are fixed. To which is added, a full defence of Christianity Against all the Objections of Atheists, Deists, and Infidels, who have endeavoured to place Mankind on a Level with the Beasts that perish. The whole being calculated to promote The Knowledge of our Holy Religion, a Firm Faith in the Merits of our Blessed Redeemer, and the Practice of Every Christian Virtue. By the Reverend John Fleetwood, D. D. Author of the Christian's Dictionary, And of the History of the Holy Bible. Published by the King's Authority.
Fleetwood, John.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]