Stories
- Article
Lindsey Fitzharris’s prescription for writing
The Wellcome Book Prize shortlisted author of ‘The Butchering Art’ answers five questions on health, inspiration and storytelling.
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The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
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The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Lister, Joseph Jackson: Sketch book
Lister, Joseph Jackson, FRS (1786-1869)Date: 1815-1865Reference: MS.8770Part of: Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron (1827-1912), and the Lister family- Archives and manuscripts
Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron (1827-1912), and the Lister family
Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912Date: 1737-1967Reference: MSS.3298-3303, 6178-6200, 6961-6989 and 8770- Archives and manuscripts
Letters of Joseph Jackson Lister to Joseph Lister
Date: 1838-1869Reference: MS.6965Part of: Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron (1827-1912), and the Lister family- Books
On anaesthetics / [Joseph Lister].
Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912.Date: 1909- Books
On anaesthetics / [Joseph Lister].
Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912.Date: 1921