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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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  • View of Margate bathing huts.
  • Huts at Sennar, on the Blue Nile. Watercolour by Mrs. Ethel Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.
  • Natal, South Africa: traditional kraal huts. Albumen print.
  • Yei, Uganda: a sleeping sickness camp: circular grass-roofed huts. Photograph, 1900/1910.
  • Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.
  • Colenso, South Africa: African kraal huts. Photograph by Hon. Geoffrey L. Parsons, 1905.
  • An open sewer beneath elevated wooden huts with residents outside, Panama. Photograph, 1908.
  • Yei, Uganda: a sleeping sickness camp: grass-roofed huts and logs in the foreground. Photograph, 1900/1910.
  • Annaba, Algeria: power spraying the exterior of thatched huts to prevent the departure of mosquitoes. Photograph, 1944.
  • Annaba, Algeria: power spraying the exterior of thatched huts to prevent the departure of mosquitoes. Photograph, 1944.
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