Stories
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The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
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Are doctors medical detectives?
Do doctors really identify medical conditions in the same way that detectives solve crimes? Neurologist Jules Montague makes her diagnosis.
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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
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How shame makes us sick
The fight-or-flight response can have long-term consequences for our bodies if left unchecked. Lucia Osborne-Crowley investigates how shame and trauma are connected, and how both can lead to chronic ill health.
Catalogue
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Erasion (arthrectomy) in diseases of the joints / by De Forest Willard.
Willard, De Forest, 1846-1910.Date: 1890
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Description of an apparatus for injuries & diseases of joints, with observations and cases / by Benjamin Barrow.
Barrow, Benjamin.Date: [1847]- Books
Pathological and surgical observations on the diseases of the joints / by Sir Benjamimn C. Brodie.
Brodie, Benjamin, Sir, 1783-1862.Date: 1850
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Devonshire hospital and Buxton Bath charity : instituted for the relief of poor persons from all parts of Great Britain and Ireland suffering from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and neuralgia ; pains, weakness or contractions of joints or limbs, arising from these diseases, or from sprains, fractures, or other local injuries ; chronic forms of paralysis ; dropped hands, and other poisonous effects of lead, mercury, or other minerals ; spinal affections ; dyspeptic complaints, uterine obstructions, etc. etc. ; supported by annual subscriptions and voluntary contributions : annual report for the year 1881 ; completion of the hospital extension ; action and purpose of the governors of the cotton districts convalescent fund ; management, history, annual statement, accounts, meteorological report and tables, rules and regulations, list of subscriptions and benefactions &c., Bath charity report for 1785, and copies of conveyances of hospital and baths from the Duke of Devonshire to the trustees.
Devonshire Royal Hospital (Buxton, Derbyshire, England)Date: 1882
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Contributions to the surgery of diseased joints : with especial reference to the operation of excision. No. 1. The knee / by P.C. Price.
Price, P. C. (Peter Charles), 1832-1864.Date: 1859