Stories
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Thalidomide, a bitter pill
Hear from some of the women who took the drug thalidomide over sixty years ago about the fear, isolation and grief that they experienced as the appalling pharmaceutical scandal unfolded around them.
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Why I don’t like prescribing sleeping pills
Sleeping pills often seem a simple option for aiding sleep or when dealing with anxiety, but there are many risks, and our anonymous GP is not afraid to say no to patients.
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Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
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How writing helps me manage schizophrenia
For Erica Crompton, writing is much more than a career. It’s an essential component of her mental health toolkit.
Catalogue
- Books
Sedatives in the treatment of ekzema / by Marris Wilson.
Wilson, Marris.Date: 1868- Books
Symposium on Sedative and Hypnotic Drugs : held under the auspices of the Miles-Ames Research Laboratory and Sumner Research Laboratory Elkhart, Indiana.
Symposium on Sedative and Hypnotic Drugs (1954)Date: 1954- Archives and manuscripts
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'Sedatives and tarnquillizers', British Medical Journal: reprint
Sargant, William Walters (1907-1988)Date: Nov 1958Reference: PP/WWS/F/4/11Part of: Sargant, William Walters (1907-1988)- Books
Acetanilid : a critical bibliographic review / by Martin Gross ; with an introduction by Howard W. Haggard.
Gross, Martin, 1898-Date: 1946- Books
The salicylates : a critical bibliographic review / by Martin Gross and Leon A. Greenberg ; with an introduction by Howard W. Haggard.
Gross, Martin, 1898-Date: 1948