Stories
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Why we need to decolonise healthcare
In this extract from ‘Divided’, Annabel Sowemimo describes the way her nana’s stroke and hospitalisation heightened her awareness of the need for us all to advocate for the health of others.
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Pain and the power of touch
As a new physiotherapist, Fiona Murphy quickly learned that her patients’ pain was unpredictable and very personal. But using the right words became the key to helping them.
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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
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The blight of the ballooning blood vessels
In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.
Catalogue
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Easterbrook, C. C. - The Sanatorium Treatment of Active Insanity by Rest in Bed in the Open Air
Date: 1907Reference: DGH1/6/18/64Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Books
The physiology and pathology of bed rest / by Norman L. Browse.
Browse, Norman L.Date: [1965], ©1965
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Two men sleeping in the same bed; representing rest. Colour lithograph, 190-.
Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]Reference: 2059382iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Books
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Rest for a wearied soul; or, the pilgrim at his journey's end. Being the last legacy of Mr. John Bunyan of Bedfordshire, left to his Children, when he lay upon his death-bed. Containing, I. His Admonition to them, of their Duty to God, to their Mother, and to one another. II. A Copy of Verses that he made upon himself, not long before his Death. III. Four and twenty godly Meditations. IV. Three and twenty godly Verses, which he gave to his youngest Son, when he lay upon his Death-Bed. V. Twenty of his common godly Sayings and Proverbs. All which are very pleasant to read, and profitable to practise, being of excellent use for all sorts of People, that desire to live a godly Life in this present World. The just Man walketh in his integrity, his Children are blessed after him. Prov. XX. 7.
Date: 1741- Archives and manuscripts
"A bed-rest for children", Lancet, 19 Aug 1961
Date: 1961Reference: PP/CDW/J.3/24Part of: Williams, Cicely Delphine (1893-1992)