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The tale of the toxic kidneys

In 1954 a serendipitous coming together of skills and circumstances allowed the first successful organ transplant to take place. Read how Richard Herrick’s life was prolonged by his identical twin’s generosity.

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Dementia playlists and musical memory

Listening to the right music can provide both solace and pleasure for someone with dementia, helping them to reconnect with the world around them. Grace Meadows makes the case for more music in dementia care.

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Are doctors medical detectives?

Do doctors really identify medical conditions in the same way that detectives solve crimes? Neurologist Jules Montague makes her diagnosis.

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Hands-on healthcare

A young hospital volunteer feared her contribution was a long way from the serious business of real healthcare. But time spent painting patients’ nails proved to be a valuable contribution to life on the ward.

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  • Special treatment and cure without operation : Mr. Ison's system of treatment of eye and ear diseases is simply perfection ... / Ison's Eye aand Ear Dispensary Ltd.
  • Lectures on diseases and injuries of the ear : delivered at St. George's Hospital / by W.B. Dalby.
  • Practical observations on aural surgery and the nature and treatment of diseases of the ear / by William R. Wilde.
  • Regent's Park, London: a charity fair for the Royal dispensary for diseases of the ear. Coloured lithograph by M. Gauci, 1832.
  • An engraved representation of the anatomy of the human ear. To which are added surgical remarks ... and a synoptic table of the diseases of the ear. Exhibiting in one view the external and internal parts of that organ in situ / [Thomas Buchanan].
  • An engraved representation of the anatomy of the human ear. To which are added surgical remarks ... and a synoptic table of the diseases of the ear. Exhibiting in one view the external and internal parts of that organ in situ / [Thomas Buchanan].
  • A treatise of the organ of hearing, containing the structure, the uses and diseases of all the parts of the ear / Translated from the French [by John Marshall].
  • A treatise of the organ of hearing, containing the structure, the uses and diseases of all the parts of the ear / Translated from the French [by John Marshall].
  • The anatomy of the human ear, illustrated by a series of engravings, of the natural size with a treatise on the diseases of that organ. The causes of deafness, and their proper treatment / By the late John Cunningham Saunders.
  • A clinical memoir on certain diseases of the eye and ear, consequent on inherited syphilis : with an appended chapter of commentaries on the transmission of syphilis from parent to offspring, and its more remote consequences / by Jonathan Hutchinson.
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