Stories
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Mandrake medicine and myths
There’s a lot of plant lore about the mandrake, going back to ancient times. Find out more about how this unremarkable-looking plant got its magical reputation.
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Mass murder and marvellous medicine
Find out how arsenic has been used for good and ill, to cure and kill, for centuries.
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The evolution of war-zone medicine
The need to deal with battlefield injuries has led to inventive designs for extreme situations. Find out how camel-drawn ambulances and flat-pack hospitals have helped casualties survive.
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Herbal medicines and the early modern menopause
Held responsible for their own “rebellious distempers” – or menopausal symptoms – women had no choice but to keep quiet and resort to unpalatable concoctions in the hope of relief, as Julia Nurse explains.
Catalogue
- E-journals
- Online
Bulletin of the history of medicine
Date: 1939-- E-journals
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Literature and medicine
Date: 1982-- E-journals
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Legal medicine / Japanese Society of Legal Medicine.
Date: ©1999-- Books
Les pratiques de la médecine populaire : recitis-vecus - memoirs / René Henry.
Henry, René, 1958-Date: [2012]- E-journals
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Journal of forensic and legal medicine
Date: ©2007-