Stories
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Healing hard-working hands
The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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Dissertations on inflammation. containing, Preliminary Dissert-on some of the Laws of the Animal Economy. Dissert. II. - On the History, causes, and consequences of simple inflammation. By John Burns, Surgeon in Glasgow.
Burns, John, 1774-1850.Date: 1800- Books
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A treatise on the diagnosis and prognosis of diseases. Part 1. Containing an history of internal phlegmonous inflammation. By Philip Parry Price.
Price, Philip Parry.Date: [1791]- Books
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The doctrine of inflammations Founded upon Reason and Experience; and intirely cleared from the contradictory systems of Boerhaave, Van Swieten, and others. By Daniel Magenise, M.D.
Magenise, Daniel.Date: 1768- Books
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The doctrine of inflammations founded upon reason and experience; and intirely cleared from the contradictory systems of Boerhaave, Van Swieten, and others. The second edition. By Daniel Magenise, M.D.
Magenise, Daniel.Date: 1776- Books
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A treatise on opthalmy; and those diseases which are induced by inflammations of the eyes. With new methods of cure. By Edward Moore Noble, Surgeon. Part the first.
Noble, Edward Moore.Date: 1800