Stories
- Article
Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
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Born in the NHS
Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Vasectomy Advancement Society of Great Britain
Date: 1972-1976Reference: SA/FPA/C/B/2/21Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
Intravenous anaesthesia - S. A. A. D. : based on postgraduate course lectures and material [by] D. Blatchley [et al.] Editor: S. L. Drummond-Jackson.
Date: [1967]- Books
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Two letters and several calculations on the sugar colonies and trade; addressed to two committees nominated by the West-India merchants, &c. With an appendix: Containing, 1. Four Letters concerning the flourishing Condition, large Extent, and prodigious Increase of the French Sugar Colonies; the Poverty, Weakness and Decay of the British Sugar Colonies; and their vast Importance to the Trade, Navigation, Wealth and Power of this Nation. 2. Some Proposals formerly presented to a Great Minister of State, for the Preservation and Advancement of the British Sugar Colonies, and Interests in the West-Indies: With an Addition of several Notes thereon. By Mr. Bennett, late Agent in the West-Indies, to the South-Sea and Royal Assiento Company of Great Britain; and to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
Bennet, John, merchant.Date: 1738- Film
Intravenous anaesthesia in dentistry.
Date: 1957- Film
Intravenous anaesthesia in dentistry.
Date: 1957