Stories
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Investigating what lithium is and how it works
The more questions Laura Grace Simpkins asked about lithium, the more she realised how little is known about this powerful drug and how it affects our mental health.
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The girl with no name
When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
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The science of why things spread
From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.
Catalogue
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Press Adverts - Dips and Livestock Remedies
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: Mar 1930 - 12 Jan 1943Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Practical observations on the teeth and gums, with the best mode for their preservation / by I. L. Levison.
Levison, I. L.Date: 1826- Books
Dental health / Dorothy Siegel ; introduction by C. Everett Koop.
Siegel, Dorothy Schainman.Date: [1994], ©1994- Books
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Primitive physic, or, an easy and natural method of curing most diseases / by John Wesley ...
Date: 1781- Books
A change for the better : how to survive - and thrive - during the menopause / Dr Hilary Jones.
Jones, Hilary (Hilary Robert)Date: 2000