Stories
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Investigating what lithium is and how it works
The more questions Laura Grace Simpkins asked about lithium, the more she realised how little is known about this powerful drug and how it affects our mental health.
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Crime drama and the realistic cadaver
Today we are accustomed to the increasingly realistic look of dead bodies in on-screen dramas. Special-effects expert Hildegunn M S Traa reveals how crime and morgue scenes reflect the social idea of death.
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Where does violence come from?
The popular understanding of certain ideas in psychology have become so embedded that it’s easy to blame the parents when a young person commits a crime. Laura Bui looks to the past for evidence.
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
Catalogue
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Popular theories of generation : the evolution of Aristotle's works, the study of an anachronism / Janet Blackman.
Blackman, Janet.- Books
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Popular directions for the prevention and cure of headaches, colds and indigestion ... Interspersed with the most useful remarks ... in the works of Mr. Abernethy, Sir Astley Cooper, Dr. Hamilton, and Dr. W. Philip / By a medical practitioner.
Date: 1822- Books
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An appendix to the Popular summary of vaccination : comprising experiments with small pox virus upon the cow, and further remarks on the practice of cow pox / by John Marshall.
Marshall John M.R.C.S fl., 1800-1830.Date: 1831- Books
Epilepsy : the falling evil / George R. Keiser.
Keiser, George R.Date: 1994- Archives and manuscripts
Essays on Popular Science, Culture and Politics
Date: c.1938-c.1941Reference: HALDANE/2/1/3Part of: Haldane Papers