Stories
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Bubbles of history
Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
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The development of the military hospitals in the Netherlands' Army Medical Service / A.P.M. Langeveld.
Langeveld, A. P. MDate: 1989- Books
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An outline of the history and cure of fever, endemic and contagious; more expressly the contagious fever of jails, ships, and hospitals; the concentrated endemic, vulgarly the yellow fever of the West Indies. To which is added, an explanation of the principles of military discipline and Economy: with a seheme of Medical arrangement for-armies. By Robert Jackson, M.D.
Jackson, Robert, 1750-1827.Date: 1798- Books
From battlefield to Blighty : Frodsham Auxiliary Military Hospital 1915-1919 / by Arthur R. Smith.
Smith, Arthur R.Date: 2001- Books
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Observations on the means of preserving the health of soldiers : and of conducting military hospitals ; and on the diseases incident to soldiers in the time of service, and on the same diseases as they have appeared in London / by Donald Monro.
Date: 1780- Books
Schlachtschrecken - Konventionen : das Rote Kreuz und die Erfindung der Menschlichkeit im Kriege / Wolfgang U. Eckart, Philipp Osten (Hrsg.).
Date: 2011