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Duelling doctors

An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.

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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars

‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?

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The soul in the stomach

A 17th-century physician’s controversial theory about the link between the emotions and the stomach reminds us that we shouldn’t ignore our ‘gut feelings’.

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Why I don’t like prescribing sleeping pills

Sleeping pills often seem a simple option for aiding sleep or when dealing with anxiety, but there are many risks, and our anonymous GP is not afraid to say no to patients.

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  • Royal Gun Factory, Woolwich Arsenal, London: a big gun barrel being turned on a lathe. Lithograph by G. Clausen, 1917.
  • Royal Gun Factory, Woolwich Arsenal, London: workers in the factory lifting a metal gun barrel with a crane. Lithograph by G. Clausen, 1917.
  • Royal Gun Factory, Woolwich Arsenal, London: the factory buildings seen from above. Lithograph by G. Clausen, 1917.
  • Blow gun darts tipped wih curare from South America.
  • A man firing a gun. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man firing a gun. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A machine gun bullet embedded in a foot bone: x-ray. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Face of a man whose nose had been reconstructed after a gun explosion
  • Face of a man whose nose had been reconstructed after a gun explosion
  • Royal Gun Factory, Woolwich Arsenal, London: a radial overhead crane for carrying heavy artillery pieces in different sectors of the factory. Lithograph by G. Clausen, 1917.
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