Stories
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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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The poetic language of health
When his doctors could only offer phone consultations, James Morland turned to poetry to make sense of the medical terms describing his symptoms and test results.
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The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
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Shakespeare’s cholerics were the real drama queens
In Shakespeare’s times, people’s personalities were categorised by four temperaments. The choleric temperament was hot-tempered and active.
Catalogue
- Videos
Liver transplantation.
Date: No date- Books
Liver disorders in childhood / Alex P. Mowat.
Mowat, Alex P.Date: 1979- Books
Liver biopsy interpretation / Peter J. Scheuer.
Scheuer, Peter J. (Peter Joseph)Date: 1968- Books
Liver biopsy interpretation / Peter J. Scheuer.
Scheuer, Peter J. (Peter Joseph)Date: [1973]- Books
Liver-fluke snails in Britain / Alan Mozley.
Mozley, Alan, 1904-Date: 1957