Stories
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The castration effect
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
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Pain and the power of touch
As a new physiotherapist, Fiona Murphy quickly learned that her patients’ pain was unpredictable and very personal. But using the right words became the key to helping them.
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A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine
Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.
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Are doctors medical detectives?
Do doctors really identify medical conditions in the same way that detectives solve crimes? Neurologist Jules Montague makes her diagnosis.
Catalogue
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Contributions to the surgery of diseased joints : with especial reference to the operation of excision. No. 1. The knee / by P.C. Price.
Price, P. C. (Peter Charles), 1832-1864.Date: 1859- Books
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On the surgery of the knee-joint : and the responsibility placed on the physician and general practitioner by the modern progress of surgery : being the inaugural and retiring presidential addresses delivered before the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society, on October 7th, 1887, and May 4th, 1888, respectively / by C.B. Keetley.
Keetley, Charles Bell, 1848-1909.Date: [1888]- Books
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Contributions to practical surgery, pathological, therapeutic, and operative. Pt. I / by James George Beaney.
Beaney, James George, 1828-1891.Date: 1861- Books
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Reports in operative surgery : series the eighth / by Richard G. Butcher.
Butcher, Richard G. H., 1819-1891.Date: 1863- Books
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A critical study of the biceps cruris muscle as it relates to disease in and around the knee-joint / by Eliza M. Mosher.
Mosher, Eliza Maria, 1846-1928.Date: 1891