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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 side effects of lithium mining

Laura Grace Simpkins attempts to untangle some uncomfortable truths about the social and environmental costs of making her medication.

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Eugenics and the welfare state

Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.

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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians

Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.

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  • Medical women. A Thesis and a History.
  • Surgery: a doctoral candidate defending a thesis in surgery at the Académie Royale de Chirurgie, Paris. Etching by P.F. Tardieu after C. Eisen, 1751.
  • An academic doctoral disputation, in which the production of a medical thesis is compared to human excretion. Aquatint by J.F. Martin after L.J. Desprez, 179-.
  • An academic doctoral disputation, in which the production of a medical thesis is compared to human excretion. Aquatint by J.F. Martin after L.J. Desprez, 179-.
  • Prof. Dr. G. Grijns' researches on vitamins 1900-1911 and his thesis on the physiology of the N. Opticus / translated and reedited by a committee of honour on oaccsion of his 70th birthday.
  • Stokesia laevis Greene Asteraceae. Stoke's Aster, Cornflower Aster. Distribution: South-eastern USA. Named by Charles Louis L’Héritier in 1789 for Dr Jonathan Stokes (1755-1831), a member of the Lunar Society and Linnean Society, botanist and physician. Stokes dedicated his thesis on dephlogisticated air [later realised to be oxygen] to Dr William Withering and wrote the preface to Withering’s iconic work On the Foxglove (1785). He also contributed histories on six patients he had treated for heart failure (‘dropsy’) with foxglove leaf, Digitalis, in his medical practice in Stourbridge. He continued at the Lunar Society until 1788
  • Tablets. I. The evolution of the tablet machine. II. A bibliography on tablets ... / by P.A. Foote.
  • Recherches sur les substances radioactives / par mme. Sklodowska Curie.
  • Martin Luther as a monk by Lukas Cranach from a postcard
  • Zur Physik Leonardo da Vincis / [Otto Werner].
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