Stories
- Article
When skin bleaching goes wrong
Warnings about permanent health damage don’t deter those using skin-bleaching products for years on end. Read the story of one woman who suffered from liver failure after years of striving to be paler.
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The case for safe skin bleaching
Skin bleaching tends to attract a negative press for a whole host of reasons. But when used to treat medical problems, its positive side becomes clear.
- Article
How your hairdresser could save your life
Barbers and hairdressers have a unique view of us – one that means they can spot potentially dangerous health problems. Find out how buzzcuts can lead to blood-pressure checks, and dip-dyes show the way to the dermatologist.
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Bleeding healthy
For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
E A Cockayne: Inherited abnormalities of the skin and its appendages (Oxford Medical Publications 1933)
Date: 1933Reference: PP/FPW/B.297/1Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Archives and manuscripts
E A Cockayne: Inherited abnormalities of the skin and its appendages (Oxford Medical Publications 1933)
Date: 1933Reference: PP/FPW/B.297/2Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Books
Inherited abnormalities of the skin and its appendages / by E.A. Cockayne.
Cockayne, E. A. (Edward Alfred), 1880-Date: 1933- Archives and manuscripts
'Incontinentia pigmenti (Bloch-Sulzberger)' Diffuse mesodermal pigmentation with cranial abnormalities (Dr Alice Carleton)--?allied to pigment naevi and so-called Mongolian patches
Date: 1945-1955Reference: PP/FPW/B.247/2Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Archives and manuscripts
E A Cockayne: Inherited abnormalities of the skin and its appendages (Oxford Medical Publications 1933) [2 copies]
Date: 1933Reference: PP/FPW/B.297Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)