Stories
- Photo story
The last glass-eye maker in Britain
Meet Jost Haas – the UK’s last artificial-eye maker working exclusively with glass.
- Book extract
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.
- Article
The sum of my parts
Testing positive for a rogue gene meant Jessica Furseth was more susceptible to cancer. After the years of anger and dissociation from her body that followed, she began to pick up the pieces.
- Photo story
Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
Catalogue
- Books
International classification of rodent tumours. Part I, The rat : [no.] 7, central nervous system; heart; eye; mesothelium / World Health Organization, International Agency for Research on Cancer ; editor-in-chief, U. Mohr.
Date: 1994- Books
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Clinical remarks on certain diseases of the eye, and on miscellaneous subjects, medical and surgical; including gout, rheumatism, fistula, cancer, hernia, indigestion, &c. &c. / by John Charles Hall.
Hall, John Charles.Date: 1843- Videos
Children fighting cancer. Part 3, Olivia and Zakk.
Date: 2007- Pictures
Malignant melanoma in a 49-year old man with terminally widespread metastases: sections of (a) right adrenal, completely replaced by growth with non-pigmented deposit in kidney, (b) testis and tunica nodules and (c) liver with multiple deposits varying in degree of pigmentation. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1950.
Nicholson, BarbaraDate: 1950Reference: 33783iPart of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.- Books
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Essays on medical subjects, originally printed separately; to which is now prefixed an introduction relating to the use of hemlock and corrosive sublimate; and to the application of caustic medicines in cancerous disorders / By Thomas Gataker.
Gataker, Thomas, -1769.Date: 1764