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Twins : from fetus to child / edited by Alessandra Piontelli.

Gemelos monozigóticos / Hilario Helguera.

Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Röntgenstrahlen.

Archiv und Atlas der normalen und pathologischen Anatomie in typischen Röntgenbildern

47 pages, 50 unnumbered pages of plates ; 30 cm.

Röntgenologische Skelettstudien an menschlichen Zwillingen und Mehrlingen : ein Beitrag zu den Problemen der Konstitution und der Phylogenese / von Franz Buschke.

Page 110: Rama fighting his sons over a horse with Sita in the middle. Watercolour drawing.

Surgeon and writer Gabriel Weston presents a programme about fat - focusing on why some people seem to struggle with their weight. Now that a quarter of the population are estimaged to be clinically obese, she discusses the latest research on obesity in the hope of finding a way to fight the current obesity epidemic. Weston dissects a pig to look at levels of fat in its body, then she meets Dr Carel Le Roux who is researching our body's chemical messengers - in particular hormones which make us feel hungry and those which make us feel full. Le Roux experiments on Weston to prove his point. We meet two identical twins - Elaine and Liz; one is overweight and one is not. Tim Spector describes how his research into twins was changed when he met Elaine and Liz who are known as discordant twins. He has since found other discordant twins and has undertaken genetic studies on each in order to see why some seem to have the fat gene switched on and some don't. He puts this down to genes that are switched on by the environment - epigenetics. However, if the fat gene can be turned on, can it be turned off? Other studies are looking at whether or not a tendency to obesity starts in the wombs of undernourished pregnant women. We see a gastric bypass operation on morbidly obese, Marianne. Dr Le Roux believes that these operations are successful both because of the stomach reduction and also the way they changes people's relationship with food. Le Roux's colleague, Samantha Scholtz, is looking at how gastric bypass surgery changes people's brains by studying MRI scans of brains looking at images of high fat food both before and after surgery. All this new evidence goes to show that it is too simple to merely call obesity a problem of willpower.

Horizon.

Horizon

The truth about fat.

Twins and orphans : the inheritance of intelligence / by Alex. H. Wingfield.

Trevor Phillips discusses two very different issues with experts in their fields, (1) effects of pollution on health, and (2) multiple births and shared characteristics of twins. [More detailed synopsis available from MFAC].

The material world

Health for a nation.

Presented by Dr. David Suzuki, University of British Columbia. Genetic inheritance; comparison of identical and fraternal twins; Eugenics Movement of 1920s and 1930s; fruit flies used in genetic research and Dr. Tim Tully's experiments at Cold Spring Harbour; wolf genes present in sheepdogs; mice behaviour experiments at the Jackson Laboratory in Barharbour, Maine; observational learning in animals leading to their survival; Vancouver Island Quagil Indians perform heritage of song and dance; Dr. Kenneth Kendlar uses twins to investigate interaction between genes and environment; Professor Rob Collins' theory that chance may be determining factor in how far we are influenced by our genes.

Cracking the code.

1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : sound, color, PAL.

Freedom in the genes.

'Evolutionary wounds' (A Keith etc). Double tongue or split tongue (Greig). Re question of twins and 'twinning'.  Bifid and double noses and tongues. The blood groups in twins. First manifestations of disease long after infection etc. Congenital coloboma of eyelids and corresponding epibulbar dermoid. Congenital fistulae and abnormal 'dimples' of lips ears and face. Coloured milk, coloured sweat etc. Also very rare cases, such as multiple primary cancer of mouth, 'pillion-rider's pelvic split accident', traversing orbit wounds, foetus in mother's thigh after trauma

Subject Collections (medical)

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine  (2nd series) (or rather supplement A)

1 drawing : pen outline ; image 28.7 x 23.5 cm

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Twins : from fetus to child / edited by Alessandra Piontelli.

Gemelos monozigóticos / Hilario Helguera.

Röntgenologische Skelettstudien an menschlichen Zwillingen und Mehrlingen : ein Beitrag zu den Problemen der Konstitution und der Phylogenese / von Franz Buschke.

Page 110: Rama fighting his sons over a horse with Sita in the middle. Watercolour drawing.

The truth about fat.

Twins and orphans : the inheritance of intelligence / by Alex. H. Wingfield.

Health for a nation.

Freedom in the genes.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine (2nd series) (or rather supplement A)

An exhausted woman being held by friends after just giving birth to twins. Pen drawing after G.F.M. Mazzola, il Parmigianino.

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Twins : from fetus to child / edited by Alessandra Piontelli.

Gemelos monozigóticos / Hilario Helguera.

Röntgenologische Skelettstudien an menschlichen Zwillingen und Mehrlingen : ein Beitrag zu den Problemen der Konstitution und der Phylogenese / von Franz Buschke.

Page 110: Rama fighting his sons over a horse with Sita in the middle. Watercolour drawing.

The truth about fat.

Twins and orphans : the inheritance of intelligence / by Alex. H. Wingfield.

Health for a nation.

Freedom in the genes.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine (2nd series) (or rather supplement A)

An exhausted woman being held by friends after just giving birth to twins. Pen drawing after G.F.M. Mazzola, il Parmigianino.

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