Stories
- Article
What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
- Book extract
A doctor, his community and coronavirus
Reflecting on his experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic, GP Gavin Francis vividly recalls a home visit to a man stricken with breathing difficulties.
- Article
A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
- Article
The secrets your teeth hold
Discover how innocuous-looking human teeth hold a wealth of hidden information about our diet, health and evolution.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Oxygen deprivation
Date: c.1930s-1940sReference: PP/HEW/C.8/15Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal- Archives and manuscripts
'Oxygen in urine'
Date: Mid to late 20th centuryReference: PP/JRE/B.317Part of: John Read (1908-1993), radiobiologist- Archives and manuscripts
Oxygen Therapy Tests
Date: 1950sReference: PP/GWP/C/6/50Part of: Pickering, Sir George White- Books
Oxygen free radicals and tissue damage.
Symposium on Oxygen Free Radicals and Tissue Damage (1978 : London, England)Date: 1979- Archives and manuscripts
Oxygen Consumption (Cordite & Fish)
Date: 1944-1945Reference: PP/WDP/D/2/5/7Part of: Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist