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Sockets and stumps

Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.

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Aphasia and drawing elephants

When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.

  • Article

Medics and the bomb

Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.

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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.

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  • Naval and Military dressing room.
  • Practical observations in surgery: more particularly as regards the Naval and Military Service / Illustrated by cases, and various official documents.
  • Practical observations in surgery: more particularly as regards the Naval and Military Service / Illustrated by cases, and various official documents.
  • Practical observations in surgery: more particularly as regards the Naval and Military Service / Illustrated by cases, and various official documents.
  • Practical observations in surgery: more particularly as regards the Naval and Military Service / Illustrated by cases, and various official documents.
  • Practical observations in surgery: more particularly as regards the Naval and Military Service / Illustrated by cases, and various official documents.
  • Practical observations in surgery: more particularly as regards the Naval and Military Service / Illustrated by cases, and various official documents.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner, seated, wearing red coat and tricorn hat, reading 'The Naval & Military gazette' No. 229. Engraving by W. O. Geller after H. P. ["Smuggler"] Parker, 1837.
  • Reception and banquet, Friday, 10th May, 1929 / International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy.
  • Plain concise practical remarks, on the treatment of wounds and fractures; to which is added, an appendix, on camp and military hospitals; principally designed for the use of young military and naval surgeons, in North-America / By John Jones.
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