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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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Wonder years

The confusion and secrecy surrounding his condition seriously affected Chris’s mental health, blighting his teenage years. But somehow he began to hope and plan for the future.

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  • Illustration of navel diseased with Syphilis
  • Chinese woodcut: Abscess above the navel
  • The navel dressing (second application) for the prevention of navel ill in foals, calves & lamb : to be applied to the navel with a soft brush or feather immediately after using the first application / W.L. Richardson.
  • Sebaceous cyst growing from the navel of a boy
  • Uganda: a Lango woman with a growth protuding from her navel area. Photograph by Cecil John Hackett, ca. 1937.
  • Uganda: a Lango woman with large growths protuding from her navel area. Photograph by Cecil John Hackett, ca. 1937.
  • Vishnu reclining on the ocean with Brahma springing from a lotus growing from Vishnu's navel with attendants. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • The narrative setting of the mahatmyas. Laksmi asks Visnu about the greatness of the Bhagvadgita as he reclines on the serpent Sesanaga in the cosmic ocean. The four headed god Brahma is seated on the lotus that emerges from Visnu's navel. The scalloped arch and rolled-up curtain at the yop of the picture evoke the symbols of temple icons
  • The narrative setting of the mahatmyas. Laksmi asks Visnu about the greatness of the Bhagvadgita as he reclines on the serpent Sesanaga in the cosmic ocean. The four headed god Brahma is seated on the lotus that emerges from Visnu's navel. The scalloped arch and rolled-up curtain at the yop of the picture evoke the symbols of temple icons
  • The landing of the wounded at Yarmouth. Reproduction of a painting.
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