At the intersection of the clinic and the laboratory : the invention, dissemination, and application of organ replacement therapy in late-Victorian medical culture

This thesis re-evaluates the initial use of organ replacement therapy in Britain during the 1890s with regard to the thyroid gland and the associated disease entity of myxoedema as paradigmatic examples. The scope of my argument, however, encompasses the period between the 1850s and 1910s, as it app...

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Main Author: Becker, Daniel
Published: Durham University 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614403