Stories
- Article
Surviving a flesh-eating disease
Nearly dying from a skin infection gave Scott Neill a chance to start again after an early life marked by grief and depression.
- Article
The meaning of trauma is wound
Daisy Johnson recalls her difficult journey to being diagnosed with vaginismus, and why women are so good at turning bad things into a joke.
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The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
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Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Kidd-Kramer
Date: 1794 - 1953Reference: MS.8898- Archives and manuscripts
Myopathies - second series
Date: 1904-1951Reference: PP/FPW/B.220/2/1Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Books
- Online
A critical study of the biceps cruris muscle as it relates to disease in and around the knee-joint / by Eliza M. Mosher.
Mosher, Eliza Maria, 1846-1928.Date: 1891- Videos
Muscle disorders in children.
Date: 1976- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 62. 'Theraputic Implications of Muscular Dystrophy Genomics'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2015 - 2017Reference: GC/253/A/62Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars