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The problem of the punctured heart

During World War II a young American surgeon working in England perfected shrapnel-removal techniques that saved dozens of lives. Discover how one case sealed his reputation as the founder of cardiac surgery.

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Remote romance and the common cold

Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.

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Doctors and the English seaside

Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.

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Close encounters of the spiritualist kind

When it comes to practical and emotional advice, Daphne heeds the words of her lost loved ones. Find out how a spiritualist medium helps her stay in touch.

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  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale visiting the Hut Hospitals, Balaklava. Wood engraving.
  • Mortuary hut in graveyard for dying, Nicobar. The dying are removed to this hut to prevent defilement of their dwellings.
  • Panama Indian family outside a traditional hut. Photograph, 1900/1910.
  • Five nude African men, in front of a hut.
  • The hut where David Livingstone died, in central Africa. Etching.
  • African hut with adjoining kitchen and toilet facilities. Photograph, 1905/1915.
  • South Africa: an African kraal hut. Photograph by Prof. Simpson, 1905.
  • Military brick hut next to palm trees. Photograph, ca. 1945 (?).
  • 4 views of hut-circles at Valtos, Uig, Lewis, Broch Age.
  • South Africa: Africans in front of a traditional kraal hut. Albumen print.
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