Stories
- Article
A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
- Article
Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
- Article
Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
English recipe book, later 17th century
Date: late 17th century - late 18th centuryReference: MS.9179- Archives and manuscripts
Bankart, James (1834-1902), surgeon and ophthalmologist
Bankart, James (1834-1902), MB Lond, FRCSDate: Mid 19th century - late 19th centuryReference: PP/JBA- Books
- Online
Des grandes épidémies et de leur prophylaxie internationale : avec le texte des lois, décrets, arrêtés, ordonnances et instructions qui s'y rattachent / par Léon Depautaine.
Depautaine, Dr., active 19th century.Date: 1868- Books
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Address in surgery : delivered at the Semi-Centennial Meeting of the American Medical Association at Philadelphia, Pa., June 3, 1896 / by W.W. Keen.
Keen, William W. (William Williams), 1837-1932.Date: 1897- Books
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Yesterday and to-day / by Francis J. Shepherd.
Shepherd, Francis J. (Francis John), 1851-1929.Date: 1899