Stories
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
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Sick of being lonely
When his relationship ended, Thom James first withdrew from the world, then began to suffer from illnesses with no apparent physical cause.
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Reversing the psychiatric gaze
Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.
Catalogue
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Research progress summary report, period 1 January 1951 - 30 June 1951 / United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3.
Date: [1951]- Books
A laboratory comparison of United States and British Army typhoid-paratyphoid vaccine / by W. Sloan Miller, Donald L. Clark and Othmar C. Dierkhising.
Miller, W. Sloan.Date: 1951- Books
Bibliography of ticks and tickborne diseases from Homer (about 800 B.C.) to 31 December 1969 / by Harry Hoogstraal ; with the editorial assistance of Anna L. Gahin and Alice Djigounian, and the NAMRU-3 Medical Zoology Department Bibliographic Staff.
Hoogstraal, Harry, 1917-1986.Date: 1970-<1982>- Books
Bibliography on medical parasitology in Indonesia, 1855-1968 / Hok-kan Lim.
Lim, Hok-kan.Date: 1974- Books
Report of NAMRU-3 medical mission to the Yemen / by Robert A. Mount [and others].
Mount, Robert A.Date: 1951