Stories
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Remote diagnosis from wee to the Web
Medical practice might have moved on from when patients posted flasks of their urine for doctors to taste, but telehealth today keeps up the tradition of remote diagnosis – to our possible detriment.
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The search for a cure for endometriosis
Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.
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Bleeding healthy
For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.
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Diagnosed bipolar, prescribed lithium
In the first part of a series looking into lithium, Laura Grace Simpkins recounts the beginning of her troubled relationship with this mysterious drug.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Urinary pigments, urinoblinuria, and indicanuria (and Indigo-uria) (also re diagnosis bilirubin crystals in urine of jaundice)
Date: 1899-1950Reference: PP/FPW/B.353Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Books
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Lectures on the urine, and on the pathology, diagnosis and treatment of urinary diseases / by John Aldridge.
Aldridge, John, active 1846-1856.Date: 1846- Books
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Elements of urinary analysis and diagnosis chemical and microscopical : being concise directions for a chemico-pathological examination of the urine and urinary concretions.
Venables, Robert, 1612?-1687.Date: [1850]- Books
Clinical observations on a characteristic of the urine in rheumatism and gout, with special reference to diathetic diagnosis / by Thomas Laycock.
Laycock, Thomas, 1812-1876.Date: 1857- Books
The urine and its derangements : with the application of physiological chemistry to the diagnosis and treatment of constitutional, as well as local diseases ... / by George Harley.
Harley, George, 1829-1896.Date: 1872