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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 search for a cure for endometriosis

Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.

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Hands-on healthcare

A young hospital volunteer feared her contribution was a long way from the serious business of real healthcare. But time spent painting patients’ nails proved to be a valuable contribution to life on the ward.

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How shame makes us sick

The fight-or-flight response can have long-term consequences for our bodies if left unchecked. Lucia Osborne-Crowley investigates how shame and trauma are connected, and how both can lead to chronic ill health.

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  • Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid : cures all diseases of the stomach, liver & blood : small doses, prompt effect.
  • Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid : cures all diseases of the stomach, liver & blood : small doses, prompt effect.
  • Gout, rheumatism, couty eczema, liver and kidney diseases are caused by the presence of uric acid in the blood : Kruschen Salts.
  • Gout, rheumatism, couty eczema, liver and kidney diseases are caused by the presence of uric acid in the blood : Kruschen Salts.
  • Atlas of pathological anatomy : illustrative of a clinical treatise on diseases of the liver / by Fried. Theod. Frerichs ; translated and edited by Charles Murchison.
  • The morbid anatomy of the liver; being an inquiry into the anatomical character, symptoms and treatment, of certain diseases which impair or destroy the structure of that viscus. Order I. Tumours. Part. I. On the tubera circumscripta, and tubera diffusa / [J.R. Farre].
  • Sickle cell disease: liver
  • Sickle cell disease: liver
  • A man sitting on a bench appealing for money for people with liver disease: "Without a liver--no life". Colour lithograph for Maag Lever Darm Stichting, 2001.
  • A nurse holds up a phial in a clinic full of mothers and babies: the new vaccine against liver disease in infants in Tanzania. Colour lithograph by R. Mbago, 2002.
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