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Our endless quest for eternal youth
From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.
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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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"Miscellaneous: Contributory Schemes, BCG, Rheumatism Scheme, School Health, NAC Nurses, milk pasteurisation, industrial health, London Administration"
Date: 1950sReference: PP/AWD/F/5Part of: Daley, Sir (William) Allen (1887-1969)
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Local hot-air treatment in rheumatism and allied affections (Tallerman-Sheffield) / by W. Knowsley Sibley.
Sibley, Walter Knowsley, 1862-Date: [1896]
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The relation of gout and rheumatism to Dupuytren's contraction of palmar fascia, with results of treatment by Adams' operation : being a thesis for the M.B. degree at Cambridge University / by Charles Edward Hedges.
Hedges, Charles Edward, 1866-Date: [1897]
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Clinical remarks on certain diseases of the eye, and on miscellaneous subjects, medical and surgical; including gout, rheumatism, fistula, cancer, hernia, indigestion, &c. &c. / by John Charles Hall.
Hall, John Charles.Date: 1843
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Rheumatism, its nature, its pathology and its successful treatment / by T.J. Maclagan.
Date: 1881