Stories

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The solidarity of sickness
Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.

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The extraction of the excruciating bladder stones
Among those vying to find alternatives to major surgery for bladder stones, young doctor Jean Civiale stood out, painstakingly honing a method that was to become the norm.

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The eye of darshan
The Hindu concept of darshan means “divine revelation”, but it’s also about the multilayered ways in which we see the world around us. Adrian Plau explains how one image in a Panjabi manuscript relates to darshan, and why it’s so striking.

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The yogi as hermit, warrior, criminal and showman
How the modern world changed the life and reputation of the yogi.
Catalogue
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Mortality of the British army at home and abroad, and during the Russian war, as compared with the mortality of the civil population in England.
Date: 1858- Books
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Mortality of the British army : at home and abroad, and during the Russian war, as compared with the mortality of the civil population in England ; illustrated by tables and diagrams.
Date: 1858- Books
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On the mortality of the infantry of the French army / [Henry Marshall].
Marshall, Henry, 1775-1851.Date: [1834]- Books
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Report on the causes of reduced mortality in the French army serving in Algeria.
Great Britain. War Office.Date: 1867- Books
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Age and length of service as affecting the sickness and mortality of the European army : and aggregate of the statistics of the army for the ten-year period, 1860-69 / by James L Bryden.
Bryden, James L. (James Lumsdaine), 1833-1880.Date: 1874