Stories
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A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
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A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
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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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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
Catalogue
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7
Date: Aug 1903 - Jul 1904Reference: WF/E/01/01/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Privilege and property : essays on the history of copyright / edited by Ronan Deazley, Martin Kretschmer and Lionel Bently.
Date: [2010], ©2010- Books
The story of medicine : from the Black Death to Florence Nightingale / from the makers of BBC History Magazine.
Date: 2017- Books
A history of the art of printing : from its invention to its wide-spread development in the middle of the 16th century preceded by a short account of the origin of the alphabet and the successive methods of recording events and multiplying ms. books before the invention of printing / by H. Noel Humphreys ; with one hundred illustrations produced in photo-lithography by Day & Son, Limited, under the direction of the author.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.Date: 1867- Books
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Infirmaries, hospitals for invalids, field lazarettos.
Beckmann, Johann, 1739-1811.Date: [1846]