Stories
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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 solidarity of sickness
Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.
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The non-operative treatment of delayed union in fractures of the leg / by John Ridlon.
Ridlon, John, 1852-1936.Date: 1891- Books
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Questions et thèse inaugurale présentées et publiquement soutenues à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 19 juin 1838 / par Jules Jourdain.
Jourdain, Jules.Date: 1838- Books
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Case of traumatic spreading gangrene, after severe compound fracture of the leg, for which amputation beneath the trochanter was performed, and the arteries secured by four acupressure needles : the femoral artery, at its giving off the profunda branch, was relieved from pressure at the forty-ninth hour after the operation, with recovery, and remarks / by P.D. Handyside.
Handyside, P. D. (Peter David), 1808-1881.Date: [1860]- Books
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Thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, 1840 / par N.-Fr. Demortain.
Demortain, N. François.Date: 1840- Pictures
Tumour in the right leg of a female patient arising from the wound of a fracture twenty years previously: detail sketch showing epithelioma. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1953.
Nicholson, BarbaraDate: 1953Reference: 34627iPart of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.