Stories
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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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Mistakes and perfect medicine
This week our anonymous GP reflects on how a mistake made in a busy, stressful environment could have had serious consequences.
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
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Menstruation, magic and moon myths
Why do stories cloaking periods in magic and mystery persist? Pragya Agarwal argues against myth-making and for inclusive menstrual education, grounded in fact.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Metabolic Study of Burn Cases", JW Keyser, Annals of Surgery, Apr 1948
Date: 1948Reference: PP/COL/C.2/5Part of: Colebrook, Leonard, FRS, FRCOG, FRCS (1883-1967), bacteriologist- Archives and manuscripts
Lecture Slides and Index Cards
Date: 1946 - 2001Reference: PP/WRO/C/4Part of: Professor Oliver Wrong- Archives and manuscripts
British Society of Prosthodontics (formerly the British Society for the Study of Prosthetic Dentistry)
British Society of Prosthodontics, 1953Date: 1953-2005Reference: SA/SPD- Books
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Geography for children; or, a short and easy method of teaching and learning geography: designed principally for the use of schools. Whereby Even Children may in a short Time know the Use of the Terrestrial Globe and Geographical Maps, and all the considerable Countries in the World; their Situation, Boundaries, Extent, Divisions, Islands, Rivers, Lakes, Chief Cities, Government and Religion. Divided into Lessons, by Way of Question and Answer: with a new general map of the world, and also a list of maps necessary for children. Translated from the French of Abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy, and now greatly augmented and improved throughout the Whole. The fifteenth edition. To which is prefixed, a method of learning geography without a master, for the Use of such grown Persons as have neglected this useful Study in their Youth. and a table of the latitude and longitude of the most remarkable places mentioned in this work. As also a Print of the Orrery.
Lenglet Dufresnoy, Nicolas, 1674-1755.Date: [1787]- Books
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Geography for children: or, a short and easy method of teaching and learning geography: designed principally for the use of schools. Whereby Even Children may in a short Time know the Use of the Terrestrial Globe and Geographical Maps, and all the considerable Countries in the World; their Situation, Boundaries, Extent, Divisions, Islands, Rivers, Lakes, Chief Cities, Government and Religion. Divided into Lessons, in the Form of Question and Answer: With a new general map of the world, the spheres, and also a list of maps necessary for children. Translated from the French of Abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy, and now greatly augmented and improved throughout the Whole. To which is prefixed, A Method of Learning Geography without a Master, for the Use of such grown Persons as have neglected this useful Study in their Youth. And A Table of the Latitude and Longitude of the most remarkable Places mentioned in this Work.
Lenglet Dufresnoy, Nicolas, 1674-1755.Date: 1791