Stories
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How to stay together while keeping apart
Vivek Murthy explores how we can keep physically distant while staying emotionally connected.
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The problem of the punctured heart
During World War II a young American surgeon working in England perfected shrapnel-removal techniques that saved dozens of lives. Discover how one case sealed his reputation as the founder of cardiac surgery.
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.
Catalogue
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Report on epidemic cholera in the Army of the United States, during the year 1866 / War Department, Surgeon General's Office.
Date: 1867- Books
Mental disease and defect in United States troops / by Edgar King.
King, Edgar, 1884-Date: [1914]- Books
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A report of surgical cases treated in the Army of the United States from 1865 to 1871 / War Department, Surgeon General's Office.
Date: 1871- Books
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Index-catalogue of the Surgeon-General's Office United States : authors and subjects.
United States. Surgeon-General's Office.Date: 1880-1895- Books
A report on the hygiene of the United States Army : with descriptions of military posts / [compiled by John S. Billings].
Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1838-1913.Date: 1875