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Mashup Score: 1A history of medical masks - 4 year(s) ago
The now ubiquitous face mask was first used by artists working with toxic substances. See how its design and use has evolved over centuries of plagues and pathogens.
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Mashup Score: 0Coronavirus, Crohn’s and me - 4 year(s) ago
Clinically vulnerable to COVID-19, Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been shut in her flat for months. With her chronic condition transformed into a life-threatening one, she explores what the pandemic is revealing about living with long-term illness.
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Coronavirus, Crohn’s and me | @ExploreWellcome Collection https://t.co/R6L6iBgbEl https://t.co/NjeMcqu8vT
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Mashup Score: 0A brief history of ventilation - 4 year(s) ago
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
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I believe @DrLindseyFitz is evolving as this generation’s greatest translator of medical history. Loved this short-form history of ventilation — and some excellent photography by Steven Pocock. | Via @ExploreWellcome https://t.co/d4DPMXq5Wx https://t.co/s8clet8DnI
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Nice short form history of medical masks | ‘From animal-bladder skin to houndstooth check and sequins, face masks have undergone many revolutions in design over the centuries. Writer Lizzie Enfield traces their history in pictures.’ @Wellcome Collection https://t.co/sEyugpPJPb https://t.co/DuslptQJn3