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The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
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How hospital care fails disabled bodies
Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.
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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
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Pain and the power of touch
As a new physiotherapist, Fiona Murphy quickly learned that her patients’ pain was unpredictable and very personal. But using the right words became the key to helping them.
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Spasms in hysterical patients
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Muscle spasms and stiffness / [written by James Bailey].
Bailey, James.Date: 2009- Archives and manuscripts
Pro-Vent (for spasms in asthma and bronchitis)
Date: c.1970-c.1986Reference: WF/M/PL/251Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Observations on gangrenes and mortifications, accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / by Charles White.
Date: 1790- Archives and manuscripts
Craft palsies, spasms and neuritis. Occupation neuroses.
Date: 1886, 1893-1946Reference: PP/FPW/B.75Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)