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The blight of the ballooning blood vessels

In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.

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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence

The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.

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The intimate and invasive art of ethical taxidermy

Does displaying dead animals bring us closer to nature, or drive us further apart?

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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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  • A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / By the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed a short account of the author's life by his brother-in-law, Everard Home.
  • A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / By the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed a short account of the author's life by his brother-in-law, Everard Home.
  • A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / By the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed a short account of the author's life by his brother-in-law, Everard Home.
  • A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / By the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed a short account of the author's life by his brother-in-law, Everard Home.
  • Three anatomical dissections taking place in an attic. Coloured lithograph by T. C. Wilson after a pen and wash drawing by T. Rowlandson.
  • Three anatomical dissections taking place in an attic. Coloured lithograph by T. C. Wilson after a pen and wash drawing by T. Rowlandson.
  • A sacrifice taking place in the tabernacle in the wilderness; the encampments of the Jewish tribes spread out to the horizon. Coloured lithograph.
  • A doctor examining a disgruntled patient, John Bull, who is being reassured by his master. Lithograph by Crichton, 1834.
  • The works of John Hunter ... with notes / Edited by James F. Palmer. [With life and bibliography of Hunter by D. Ottley].
  • The trunks of the vena cava, with their branches, engraving by Benard, 1779, after an engraving by M. Vandergucht after W. Cowper, 1702, after a preparation by G. Leoni, c. 1645.
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