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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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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.
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The meanings of hurt
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
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Sex in graphic novels
Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.
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Helps for suddain accidents endangering life : By which those that liue farre from physitions or chirurgions may happily preserue the life of a poore friend or neighbour, till such a man may be had to perfect the cure. Collected out of the best authours for the generall good, by Stephen Bradvvell. physition.
Bradwell, StephenDate: 1633- Books
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The constitution of the Humane Society of the state of New-York. To which are subjoined, the address of the medical counsellors to the citizens; and the most successful methods of restoration hitherto discovered; with the medical cautions and advice which appear best suited to accomplish the principal and more immediate objects of the institution. Published by order of the society. [Four lines of quotation]
Humane Society of the State of New-York.Date: M,DCC,XCV. [1795]- Books
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Popular observations on apparent death from drowning, suffocation, &c. With an account of the means to be employed for recovery. Drawn up at the desire of the Northamptonshire Preservative Society: by James Curry, M.D. Member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, and Physician to the Northampton Hospital.
Curry, James.Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]- Books
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A lecture, containing plain descriptions of the situation of the large blood-vessels of the extremities; the instrument called tourniquet; and the methods of making effectual pressure on the arteries, in cases of dangerous effusions of blood from wounds, &c. delivered to the scholars of the Maritime School, at Chelsea;first printed for their Use; And now published for general Benefit; By William Blizard, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; Surgeon to the London Hospital, and the Honourable Artillery-Company; And Lecturer in Anatomy, and Surgery.
Blizard, William, Sir, 1743-1835.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Relief from accidental death: or, summary instructions for the general institution, proposed in the year 1773, by Alexander Johnson, M. D. To Introduce and Establish In all the Extent of His Majesty's British Dominions, A successful Practice For recovering Persons who meet with Accidents, producing suddenly An Appearance of Death. Re-Published in 1784, at the expence of the Maidstone Society.
Johnson, Alexander, 1715 or 1716-1799.Date: [1784]