Stories
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The shock of cardiac arrest when you’re young and fit
Footballer Christian Eriksen’s on-pitch collapse in 2020, witnessed by thousands, was shocking. Fellow cardiac-arrest survivor Meg Fozzard explores the risks in the young and fit, and how we can all help.
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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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How can I stop fainting?
Fed up with the faints that bolstered her fragile young snowflake image, Gwen Smith sought expert medical help to keep her upright in trying situations.
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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The influence of venous filling upon the rate of the heart / by F.A. Bainbridge.
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Introduction to the regulation of blood pressure and heart rate / by Corneille Heymans.
Heymans, Corneille, 1892-1968.Date: [1950], ©1950- Books
The "physiological maximum heart rate" as an artefact / by W.B. Cannon and J.T. Lewis.
Cannon, Walter B. (Walter Bradford), 1871-1945.Date: [1927?]