Stories
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
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Born different
For Chris North, being born intersex in the 1940s meant his many childhood hospital visits, tests and operations were not explained or discussed. As he reveals, doctors encouraged strict secrecy.
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Audrey and her family
In working on Audrey Amiss’s archive, Elena is getting closer to understanding her. But the way her niece and nephew remember Audrey adds essential detail to the picture.
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The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
Catalogue
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Giovanni Battista Morgagni and eighteenth-century physical examination / Malcolm Nicolson.
Nicolson, Malcolm.Date: 1992- Books
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The physical examination of the chest in health and disease / by Reginald E. Thompson.
Thompson, Reginald E.Date: 1879- Books
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The physical examination and development of public school boys : based upon records of over 40,000 observations : a paper read before the Association on April 4th, 1899 / by Cecil Hawkins.
Hawkins, Cecil.Date: 1900- Books
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Notes upon the physical examination of the respiratory and circulatory systems / by John Wyllie.
Date: [1900]- Books
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Auscultation and percussion : together with the other methods of physical examination of the chest.
Gee, Samuel (Samuel Jones), 1839-1911.Date: 1877