Stories
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
Catalogue
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The history of legal medicine in Britain and Europe.
Date: 9-11 April, 1987- Books
Medicine and justice : medico-legal practice in England and Wales, 1700-1914 / Katherine D. Watson.
Watson, Katherine (Katherine Denise)Date: 2020- Books
Social class and mental illness in Northern Europe / edited by Petteri Pietikäinen and Jesper Vaczy Kragh.
Date: 2020- Books
A history of geology and medicine / edited by C.J. Duffin, The Natural History Museum, London, UK, R.T.J. Moody, Kingston University, London, UK, and C. Gardner-Thorpe, University of Exeter Medical School, UK.
Date: [2013]- Books
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Apperçu général, appuyé de quelques faits, sur l'origine et le sujet de la médecine légale / par P. Sue.
Sue, P. (Pierre), 1739-1816.Date: An VIII [i.e. 1800]