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The inheritor's powder : a tale of arsenic, murder, and the new forensic science
Explores how an infamous murder case led to the birth of modern toxicology.
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Doctors in fiction: the medical profession through authors' eyes
By the mid-19th century, novelists were not only looking to medical politics for interesting material, however, but were also highlighting, and in some cases lampooning, how precarious a living medicine could be.
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John Snow
Snow's On the Mode of Communication of Cholera, first published in 1849, set out the then radical idea that cholera was a disorder of the digestive system not the blood; and that it was contagious and spread through the oral-faecal route, largely through contaminated drinking water. According to Joshua Parsons, a friend from his student days, Snow had no interest in money or fame, however: \"The naked truth for its own sake was what he sought and loved.
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John St John Long: quackery and manslaughter
On Feb 17, 1831, a 32-year-old man called John St John Long was tried at London's Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey, for the manslaughter of Mrs Colin Campbell Lloyd. On the Cemetery's roll call of famous people, his name appears under the heading of \"Medicine\" alongside many of the leading members of the medical establishment of the day, including Richard Bright, physician-extraordinary to Queen Victoria who gave his name to Bright's disease; Sir Anthony Carlisle, surgeon-extraordinary to George IV; and Sir James McGrigor, chief of the army medical staff under the Duke of Wellington.
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James Marsh and the poison panic
The precipitate tests used silver nitrate, which produces a yellow precipitate when added to a liquid containing arsenic; copper sulphate, which produces a colour known as Scheele's green when arsenic is present; and hydrogen sulphide gas, which when bubbled through an arsenic solution, produces yellow arsenious sulphide.\\n So, hydrogen is introduced into the sample and the metallic arsenic is then recovered from the evolving arsine. [...]in 1851, after a series of high-profile criminal poisoning cases, the British Government took action.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF CLEANSING
New data show that the bacteria on nappy skin is very site-specific, which has important implications for cleansing. Adapted from the source document.
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THE SCIENCE OF NAPPY SKIN
Up to fifty per cent of babies will suffer from the irritant dermatitis in the nappy area, or inflammatory eruption of the skin, known as nappy rash. This article discusses the condition's causes and recommended treatments. Adapted from the source document.
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Prevention of Nappy Rash
Nappy rash is a common condition among infants and one that resonates with both health visitors and mothers alike. Adapted from the source document.
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Nappy rash prevention
Learning module exploring the protection of the nappy area and prevention of nappy rash. Topics covered include the prevalence of irritant dermatitis in the nappy area, the science of nappy skin, skin cleansing and bacteria found on nappy skin and the use of nappy creams to improve skin barrier function. 37 references
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