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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 making of ‘Quacks’

How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?

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Sharing Nature: Over the rainbow

Here’s your choice of the most meaningful nature photo on the theme of health.

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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances

In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.

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  • Plan shewing arangement of tables on the occasion of the reception and banquet to the Fifth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy, Friday, 10th May, 1929.
  • With the Librarian's compliments / Royal Veterinary College (University of London).
  • With compliments / The Library, the Royal Veterinary College, University of London ; Librarian: Linda D. Warden.
  • The carnival of lost emotions / The Centre for the History of the Emotions.
  • Paraphrasis, in nonum librum Rhazae medici Arabis clariss. ad Regem Almansorem, de singularu[m] corporis partium affectuum curatione, / autore Andrea Wesalio Bruxellensi Medicin[a]e candidato.
  • Paraphrasis, in nonum librum Rhazae medici Arabis clariss. ad Regem Almansorem, de singularu[m] corporis partium affectuum curatione, / autore Andrea Wesalio Bruxellensi Medicin[a]e candidato.
  • Paraphrasis, in nonum librum Rhazae medici Arabis clariss. ad Regem Almansorem, de singularu[m] corporis partium affectuum curatione, / autore Andrea Wesalio Bruxellensi Medicin[a]e candidato.
  • Visit of the delegates to Eleventh International Veterinary Congress : the Corporation of the City of London request the honour of the company of... at a conversazione at Guildhall on Friday the 8th of August 1930 at 7.30 o'clock p.m.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the library viewed through an archway. Wood engraving by E. Gilks after a photograph by W. A. Delamotte.
  • Presentation luncheon to Col. Sir William Smith, M.D. at Apothecaries Hall on Wednesday 12th June 1929 / Fifth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy.
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