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The Key to Memory: Follow your nose

Elissavet Ntoulia explores what a pair of pomanders can tell us about how and why we remember.

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My rainforest upbringing

In the introduction to her serial, research biologist Nataly Allasi Canales charts the influences that led her to passion for preserving the species of the Peruvian Amazon, where she spent her childhood.

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On contagion

Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.

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The extraction of the excruciating bladder stones

Among those vying to find alternatives to major surgery for bladder stones, young doctor Jean Civiale stood out, painstakingly honing a method that was to become the norm.

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  • Inheritance in snails and Mendelian. Inheritance in Andalusian fowls.
  • A variety of gasteropod molluscs, including glaucus, snails and slugs. Line block.
  • Memory on the chemical composition of snails and the pharmaceutical preparations of which they are the base, second page
  • Memory on the chemical composition of snails and the pharmaceutical preparations of which they are the base. Fifth Page
  • Memory on the chemical composition of snails and the pharmaceutical preparations of which they are the base, fourth page.
  • Memory on the chemical composition of snails and the pharmaceutical preparations of which they are the base. Third Page
  • Memory on the chemical composition of snails and the pharmaceutical preparations of which they are the base. Seventh Page
  • Memory on the chemical composition of snails and the pharmaceutical preparations of which they are the base, sixth Page
  • Tongues and other microscopic parts of snails. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans after T. West, after W. F. Maples.
  • The dockside in Naples: a man is cooking snails in a pot over an open fire, while another man reads aloud from a book by Ariosto. Watercolour painting.
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