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Getting under the skin
| Taryn Cain
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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The father of handwashing
| David JesudasonSteven Pocock
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.