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Bubbles of history
Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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The unimprovable white cane
Recent technological additions to the white cane aim to make the world easier for visually impaired people to navigate. Alex Lee explores whether new is really better.
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A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
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Mineralogia Cornubiensis; a treatise on minerals, mines, and mining: containing the theory and natural history of strata, fissures, and lodes, With The Methods Of Discovering And Working Of Tin, Copper, And Lead Mines, And Of Cleansing And Metalizing Their Products, Shewing Each Particular Process For Dressing, Assaying, And Smelting Of Ores. To Which IS Added, An Explanation of the Terms and Idioms of Miners. By W. Pryce, of Redruth in Cornwall.
Pryce, William, 1725?-1790.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
Cercavano la luce : storia sanitaria delle zolfare di Sicilia / Renato Malta ; presentazione di Alfredo Salerno ; prefazione di Aldo Gerbino.
Malta, Renato, 1951-Date: 2012- Books
History of malaria and its control in different coalfields of India : a review of 15 years in retrospect / by R.N. Sen and S.A. Azeez.
Sen, R. N.Date: 1963- Books
Geschichte des Instituts für Pathologie der Bergbau-Berufsgenossenschaft an den Berufsgenossenschaftlichen Krankenanstalten "Bermannsheil Bochum" - Universitätsklinik - 1. Okt. 1919-31. Dez. 1985 / Heinrich A.K. Elsner ; mit einem Exkurs von Hans-Jürgen Blanck-Lubarsch: Ergänzungen zur Autobiographie von Otto Lubarsch.
Elsner, Heinrich A. K., 1954-Date: 1990- Books
Follow your star : from mining to heart transplants - a surgeon's story / Terence English.
English, Terence A. H., 1932-Date: [2011], ©2011