Stories
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The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
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How I cured my fear of vomiting
Emetophobia ruled every waking moment of Alex’s life. Until he came to realise he couldn’t live that way any more.
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A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine
Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
Catalogue
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Cardiovascular physiology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / [Jerome Joseph Bylebyl].
Bylebyl, Jerome J. (Jerome Joseph), 1943-Date: [1976]- Books
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The different methods of lifting and carrying the sick and injured / by G.H. Darwin.
Darwin G. H. (George Henry)Date: 1888- Books
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A report to the Surgeon General on the transport of sick and wounded by pack animals / by George A. Otis.
Otis, George A. (George Alexander), 1830-1881.Date: 1877- Books
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On some forms of extemporaneous conveyances for sick and wounded in peace and war : read before the General Assembly of Members of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England, June 24th, 1878 / by J.H. Porter.
Porter, Joshua Henry, -1880.Date: 1878- Books
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Report on the fitness for use in the British service of a wheeled ambulance transport conveyance moved by hand labour (Neuss'sche zweiräderige Bahre), the employment of which is stated to have been attended with special advantages during the recent war between Germany and Denmark in Schleswig-Holstein : together with a history of the class of conveyances to which it belongs, so far as regards their connexion with the objects of ambulance transport / by T. Longmore.
Longmore, Sir Thomas, 1816-1895.Date: [1865]