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Diagnosing the past

Historical texts rarely supply enough detail for a definitive diagnosis, so medical historians need to proceed with caution.

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Coleridge’s hypochondria

An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.

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The search for a cure for endometriosis

Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.

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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK

Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.

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  • Paget's disease bone under polarised light
  • Sickle cell disease: bone marrow expansion
  • Sickle cell disease: bone marrow expansion
  • Diseases of the bones
  • Sections through bones affected by Möller-Barlow disease (hypertrophic osteodystrophy). Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
  • Illustrations of the effects of disease and injury of the bones, with descriptive and explanatory statements / By Edward Stanley.
  • Bones of the hand of Sergeant Mather, possibly of 2nd Middlesex Regiment, showing tuberculous disease of the wrist. Radiograph, 1900/1904.
  • A diseased section of bone. Watercolour, 1822.
  • The Abbaye of Saint Antoine, the Sologne, France. Pilgrims suffering from ergotism (St Antony's fire) approaching the infirmary in which the relics and bones of the saint are preserved which were believed to cure the disease. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • A skeleton showing the diseased bones of the body.
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