Stories
- Article
Bleeding healthy
For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
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Remote diagnosis from wee to the Web
Medical practice might have moved on from when patients posted flasks of their urine for doctors to taste, but telehealth today keeps up the tradition of remote diagnosis – to our possible detriment.
Catalogue
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Catharine Grace Loch, Royal Red Cross, Senior Lady Superintendent Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India : a memoir / edited by A.F. Bradshaw.
Loch, Catharine Grace, 1854-1904.Date: 1905- Books
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Catharine Grace Loch, Royal Red Cross, senior lady superintendent, Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India : a memoir / with an introduction by field-marshal the earl Roberts / compiled from her letters and papers by Alexander F. Bradshaw.
Date: 1905- Archives and manuscripts
Editorial from the Nursing Mirror, 15 June 1907, reprinted in the Nursing Mirror, 4 Sept 1975 re male nurses and Miss McCaul's foundation of the Navy and Army Male Nursing Association
Date: 1907Reference: RAMC/1209Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Certificate of qualification as Nursing Orderly, First Class
Date: 1931Reference: MS.8139/8Part of: Sgt John Cairns, RAMC- Books
An officer and a lady : Canadian military nursing and the Second World War / Cynthia Toman.
Toman, Cynthia, 1948-Date: [2007], ©2007