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When skin bleaching goes wrong

Warnings about permanent health damage don’t deter those using skin-bleaching products for years on end. Read the story of one woman who suffered from liver failure after years of striving to be paler.

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Providing care across languages

When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.

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The relationship between science and art

Often seen as opposites, science and art both depend on observation and synthesis.

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The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols

What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.

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  • Gendai, geka kihai, dictated to his pupil Matsuoka Hajime. Treatise on internal medicine spread from book 9.
  • A guide to the practical physician, shewing from the most approved authors, both ancient and modern, the truest and latest way of curing all diseases, internal and external, whether by medicine, surgery, or diet ... To which is added an appendix concerning the office of a physician / Theoph. Bonet.
  • A guide to the practical physician, shewing from the most approved authors, both ancient and modern, the truest and latest way of curing all diseases, internal and external, whether by medicine, surgery, or diet ... To which is added an appendix concerning the office of a physician / Theoph. Bonet.
  • A guide to the practical physician, shewing from the most approved authors, both ancient and modern, the truest and latest way of curing all diseases, internal and external, whether by medicine, surgery, or diet ... To which is added an appendix concerning the office of a physician / Theoph. Bonet.
  • A guide to the practical physician, shewing from the most approved authors, both ancient and modern, the truest and latest way of curing all diseases, internal and external, whether by medicine, surgery, or diet ... To which is added an appendix concerning the office of a physician / Theoph. Bonet.
  • Bazilica chymica, et praxis chymiatricæ, or Royal and practical chymistry in three treatises. Wherein all those excellent medicines and chymical preparations are fully discovered, from whence our modern chymists have drawn their choicest remedies / Being a translation of Oswald Crollius his Royal chymistry, augmented and inl. by John Hartman. To which is added his Treatise of signatures of internal things. Or, A true and lively anatomy of the greater and lesser world. As also the Practice of chymistry of John Hartman, M.D., augmented and inlarged by his son [G.E. Hartmann]. All faithfully Englished by a lover of chymistry.
  • Bazilica chymica, et praxis chymiatricæ, or Royal and practical chymistry in three treatises. Wherein all those excellent medicines and chymical preparations are fully discovered, from whence our modern chymists have drawn their choicest remedies / Being a translation of Oswald Crollius his Royal chymistry, augmented and inl. by John Hartman. To which is added his Treatise of signatures of internal things. Or, A true and lively anatomy of the greater and lesser world. As also the Practice of chymistry of John Hartman, M.D., augmented and inlarged by his son [G.E. Hartmann]. All faithfully Englished by a lover of chymistry.
  • The 8th International Congresses on Tropical Medicine and Malaria. Photograph.
  • Reception and banquet, Friday, 10th May, 1929 / International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy.
  • Philadelphia International Exposition, 1876: U.S. military medicine cart prototype. Photograph, 1876.
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