Stories
- Article
Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
- Book extract
Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
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Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
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The science of why things spread
From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.
Catalogue
- Books
Japanese medical history outline.
Military Intelligence Service Language School (U.S.)Date: [1942]- Books
The history of medicine in Leeds / Stephen T. Anning.
Anning, S. T. (Stephen Towers)Date: 1980- Books
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The most rare and excellent history of the Duchesse of Suffolkes calamity : To the tune of Queene Dido.
Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600Date: [1635?]- Books
Rare books in the Welch Medical Library. 3, The Crummer manuscript / Henry E. Sigerist.
Sigerist, Henry E. (Henry Ernest), 1891-1957Date: 1936- Books
Bibliotheca Systema Naturæ : prospectus for a museum of rare books in science, medicine & history.
Date: 2002