Stories
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Born in the NHS
Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.
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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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Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
Catalogue
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A contribution to the natural history of scarlet fever : based upon official statistical records of mortality and morbidity / by John T. Wilson.
Wilson, John T.Date: [1897]- Student dissertations
The jurisprudence of infanticide in nineteenth century Britain : mortality of the victim or mentality of the accused - a medical uncertainty ? / Pippa Cox.
Cox, Pippa.Date: 1994- Books
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An investigation into the effects of family and personal history upon the rates of mortality experienced in various classes of life assurance risks : with special reference to tuberculosis / by Edward A. Rusher and Charles William Kenchington.
Rusher, Edward A.Date: 1913- Books
Pre-industrial population change : the mortality decline and short-term population movements / edited by Tommy Bengtsson, Gunnar Fridlizius, and Rolf Ohlsson.
International Symposium on the Mortality Decline and Short-term Population Movement (1981 : Lund, Sweden)Date: [1984]- Books
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Report on the mortality of Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven, for the months of January, and February, 1846 / by James Stark.
Date: 1846