Stories
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The blight of the ballooning blood vessels
In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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A journey through slime
Did you know that slime cells signal to each other and seek out multiple partners? Welcome to bath time with Abi Palmer – and some revolting yet awe-inspiring grey slime.
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Pain and the power of touch
As a new physiotherapist, Fiona Murphy quickly learned that her patients’ pain was unpredictable and very personal. But using the right words became the key to helping them.
Catalogue
- Books
Post-operative pulmonary complications / by C. Kelman Robertson.
Robertson, C. Kelman.Date: 1948- Archives and manuscripts
Post-operative pulmonary complications; meeting with surgeons
Date: 25 May 1962Reference: PP/RRM/D.1/54Part of: Macintosh, Sir Robert (1897-1989)- Books
Post-operative depletion of the epinephrin store of the adrenals / by G.N. Stewart and J.M. Rogoff.
Stewart, G. N. (George Neil), 1860-1930.Date: [1921?]- Pictures
Post-operative view of 82-year old man with cancer: detail sketch after excision of pinna, meatus and surrounding skin of ear. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1957.
Nicholson, BarbaraDate: 1957Reference: 35925iPart of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.- Videos
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Post operative extradural analgesia. Prophylaxis against pulmonary complications.
Date: [1963]