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The pulse of life
Your pulse is a vital sign of life. Variations in the pulse have been linked to illness, being in love and stress. You can’t live without a pulse, or can you?
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How electromagnetic therapy inspired me
Poet Sarah James explores how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treated her depression and influenced her art.
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Electrical epilepsy and the EEG Test
The EEG (electroencephalograph) literally electrified the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. But for Aparna Nair the dreaded EEG tests of her adolescence were a painful ordeal.
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: three staff listen for a patient's heart beat and a doctor reads a man's pulse. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
Ibels, Louise Catherine, 1891-1965.Date: 1916Reference: 24105i- Videos
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The jugular venous pulse.
Date: 1957- Archives and manuscripts
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Efficacy and contraception
Date: 1960 - 1989Reference: SA/FPA/C/E/16/2/1Part of: Family Planning Association- Videos
Monitor me.
Date: 2013- Archives and manuscripts
Insulin Products
Date: 1947-1976Reference: WF/M/PL/160Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd