Stories
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The current that kills
In the 19th century, electricity held life in the balance, with the power to execute – or reanimate.
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Shakespeare’s cholerics were the real drama queens
In Shakespeare’s times, people’s personalities were categorised by four temperaments. The choleric temperament was hot-tempered and active.
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What the nose doesn’t know
Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.
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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.
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A physician, a burgess (the physician's patient), and the dean of a university, in their respective costumes, 13--. Coloured wood engraving by Cupré after F.P.
P. F.Reference: 21505i- Books
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The Prophylactic Clothing of the Body, chiefly in relation to cold, read before the North London District of the Metropolitan Counties Branch of the British Medical Association, October 31st, 1895 / by W. F. Cleveland.
Date: 1896- Books
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Report to the Right Hon. Lord Panmure, G.C.B., &c., Minister at War, of the proceedings of the Sanitary Commission dispatched to the seat of war in the East, 1855-56 / presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, March 1857.
Date: 1857- Books
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Domestic medicine : a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicine. ... With remarks on the properties of food, vaccination, electricity, galvanism, bathing, &c / by William Buchan.
Buchan William, 1729-1805.Date: 1828- Pictures
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A young physician taking the pulse of a woman with whom he is flirting, a young man passing by raises his hat. Colour stipple engraving by J. Parker, 1783, after J. Northcote.
Northcote, James, 1746-1831.Date: [1783]Reference: 21778i