Stories
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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We who can’t believe
Unless she falls to the floor unconscious, Anne Boyer has always ignored signs of illness. Cancer, however, made her face her fallibility.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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“Above resistant pavements, I floated”
In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.
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Kidney stones in a female patient with renal colic: left kidney, lower lobe section showing (a) independent blood supply via renal artery and (b) opened calices to show site of renal calculi, in relation to their position as seen in radiographs. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1958.
Nicholson, BarbaraDate: 1958Reference: 36129iPart of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.
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Kidney stone, SEM.
MacKenzie, Kevin.Date: 2013
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Kidney stone
Sergio Bertazzo, Imperial College London; Dominique Bazin, UPMC; Chantal Jouanneau, INSERM.
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Kidney stone
Sergio Bertazzo, Imperial College London; Dominique Bazin, UPMC; Chantal Jouanneau, INSERM.
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Kidney stone
Sergio Bertazzo, Imperial College London; Dominique Bazin, UPMC; Chantal Jouanneau, INSERM.