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Mortality in fourteenth-century Exeter.

For many years, pioneer work has begun to uncover the history of mortality in England during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, before the Black Death. Nearly a hundred years ago, Creighton collected chronicle references to outbreaks of disease and mortality in his History ofepidemics in England.' In 1948 and 1966, J. C. Russell analysed the inquisitions post mortem to reveal patter...

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Melissa Bowen University of Exeter: October 2008

The objective of the present study was to investigate how effective the use of an automatic camera, SenseCam, could be as an autobiographical memory aid for a 36 year old female patient presenting with medial temporal lobe damage and severe anterograde amnesia. The patient (CB) took part in an activity and was then given free recall and cued recall questions of varying specificity to assess mem...

A history of the Exeter hospitals 1170–1948

P. M. G. RUSSELL, A history of the Exeter hospitals 1170-1948, Exeter, Medical Postgraduate Institute, 1976, 8vo, pp. vii, 171, illus., £4.28. J. D. Harris's The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital was published in 1922, and the present work supplements it by dealing with other hospitals in Exeter, the first of which was for lepers. The author includes medieval almshouses, which, strictly speaking,...