Stories
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Why pandemic denial is nothing new
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.
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A doctor, his community and coronavirus
Reflecting on his experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic, GP Gavin Francis vividly recalls a home visit to a man stricken with breathing difficulties.
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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.
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The 200-year search for normal people
Sarah Chaney poses the question we’ve likely all asked at some point in our lives: 'Am I normal?’, and explores whether normality even exists.
Catalogue
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A surgeon setting a leg with the aid of three assistants, observed by onlookers, in front of walls on which various surgical instruments are arranged. Engraving by Jacob van Meurs, 1657.
Date: 1657Reference: 24975i- Books
Congenital constriction of leg by band : perforating ulcer of foot / by John H. Morgan.
Morgan, John H. (John Hammond)Date: 1886- Books
Band-aid for a broken leg : being a doctor with no borders (and other ways to stay single) / Damien Brown.
Brown, DamienDate: 2013- Pictures
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The legs of a woman dancing on a swirling green background with the words 'Red Hot + Rio The Party'; an advertisement for a Brazilian music event on 24th November 1996 at BKA-Zelt, a venue in Berlin; organised by Berliner AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph.
Date: [19]96Reference: 674253i- Archives and manuscripts
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M0003952: Votive offerings representing a man with a bandaged leg and a woman with an arm in a sling
Date: 9 July 1934Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/33/1Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive