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Mapping the body

These intricate anatomical drawings show how Ayurveda practitioners have explored the human body and how it works.

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Making sunstroke insanity

Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.

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The castration effect

Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.

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  • A leg fracture: showing a plate holding the bone in position: x-ray. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Plate 55. Surgical instruments for operating on the bones.
  • Plate XXXII. Resection of the bones of the ankle and foot.
  • A hyena is standing next to plate bearing its image and a skull and bones of a hyena skeleton. Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
  • Anatomical studies of the bones and muscles, for the use of artists / from drawings by the late John Flaxman. Engraved by Henry Landseer; with two additional plates; and explanatory notes, by William Robertson.
  • Anatomical studies of the bones and muscles, for the use of artists / from drawings by the late John Flaxman. Engraved by Henry Landseer; with two additional plates; and explanatory notes, by William Robertson.
  • Anatomical studies of the bones and muscles, for the use of artists / from drawings by the late John Flaxman. Engraved by Henry Landseer; with two additional plates; and explanatory notes, by William Robertson.
  • Anatomical studies of the bones and muscles, for the use of artists / from drawings by the late John Flaxman. Engraved by Henry Landseer; with two additional plates; and explanatory notes, by William Robertson.
  • Essays on several important subjects in surgery: chiefly on the nature and cure of fractures of the long bones of the extremities. Particularly those of the thigh and leg, whether simple of compound : for which a new method of retention is proposed. The whole illustrated with cooper-plates / [John Aitken].
  • Essays on several important subjects in surgery: chiefly on the nature and cure of fractures of the long bones of the extremities. Particularly those of the thigh and leg, whether simple of compound : for which a new method of retention is proposed. The whole illustrated with cooper-plates / [John Aitken].
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