Stories
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Why the NHS is worth saving
In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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Observations on fevers, especially those of the continued type; and on the scarlet fever attended with ulcerated sore-throat, as it appeared at Newcastle upon Tyne in the year 1778: together with a comparative view of that epidemic with the scarlet fever as described by authors, and the angina maligna. By John Clark, M.D. One of the Physicians to the Newcastle Dispensary.
Clark, John, 1744-1805.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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A complete English dispensatory: containing the general nature and medicinal virtues of all the simples now in use. With the prescriptions of the most approved authors, as well as of the London and Edinburgh dispensatories ... To which is prefix'd, the history of the ... College of Physicians, London; of the principal chymists; of the venereal diseases; of the circulation of the blood; and other ... subjects / [Robert Colborne].
Colborne, Robert.Date: 1756- Books
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A complete English dispensatory: containing the general nature and medicinal virtues of all the simples now in use. With the prescriptions of the most approved authors, as well as of the London and Edinburgh dispensatories, according to the last Alterations. To which is prefix'd, the history of the institution of the College of Physicians, London; of the Principal Chymists; of the Venereal Disease; of the Circulation of the Blood; and other important Subjects. By Robert Colborne.
Colborne, Robert, active 1753.Date: [1756]- Books
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The medical pocket-book : containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body, including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues and doses of medicinal compositions and simples : extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order.
Elliot, John, Sir, 1736-1786.Date: 1791- Books
Fiction & physicians : medicine through the eyes of writers / Stephen McWilliams.
McWilliams, Stephen, 1974-Date: [2012]