Calibre Health Dictionary

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A talking-book service which is available to all blind and handicapped people who can supply a doctor’s certi?cate con?rming that they are unable to read printed books in the normal way. Its catalogue contains more than 370 books for adults and more than 250 for children, and additions are being made at the rate of around three a week. Full details can be obtained from Calibre.

www.calibre.org.uk

Health Source: Medical Dictionary
Author: Health Dictionary

National Listening Library

National Listening Library is a charity which produces recorded books for handicapped people who cannot read, with the exception of the blind who have their own separate organisation, the Royal National Institute for the Blind. (See also CALIBRE.)... national listening library

Southey’s Tubes

fine-calibre tubes for insertion into subcutaneous tissue to drain excess fluid. They are rarely used in practice today. [R. Southey (1835–99), British physician]... southey’s tubes



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