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Chemotherapy-day drawings

Undergoing treatment for bowel cancer, artist Clare Smith produced around 70 abstract drawings while sitting in the chemotherapy chair. She reflects on how creativity can bring respite in a crisis.

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A reflection on art in a mental hospital

Artist Beth Hopkins explains how she used her experience of researching the Adamson Collection to create an embroidered wall hanging.

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The intermediate life of spirits

Courttia Newland explores the events and his feelings surrounding the death of his mother-in-law, Tara Chauhan.

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The father of handwashing

Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.

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  • The normal puerperium, post-partum difficulties with the bladder, and puerperal sepsis. Lithograph after W. F. Victor Bonney.
  • Group A Streptococci are a species of gram-positive bacteria responsible for causing a number of pyogenic (pus-producing) infections including impetigo, scarlet fever and pneumonia. Further fatal complications arising from infection include the development of meningitis and sepsis.
  • Group A Streptococci are a species of gram-positive bacteria responsible for causing a number of pyogenic (pus-producing) infections including impetigo, scarlet fever and pneumonia. Further fatal complications arising from infection include the development of meningitis and sepsis.
  • Group A Streptococci are a species of gram-positive bacteria responsible for causing a number of pyogenic (pus-producing) infections including impetigo, scarlet fever and pneumonia. Further fatal complications arising from infection include the development of meningitis and sepsis.
  • Group A Streptococci are a species of gram-positive bacteria responsible for causing a number of pyogenic (pus-producing) infections including impetigo, scarlet fever and pneumonia. Further fatal complications arising from infection include the development of meningitis and sepsis.
  • 'Disulphamin' : therapy of influenza septic diseases and toxaemias.
  • Infecciones : grippe, tifoidea, fiebres puerperales, estreptococcicas, estafilococcicas, flemones, colecistitis, angiocolitis, ictericias, piletis, pileonefritis, cistitis, uretritis, etc. / Laboratorios Ambard.
  • Infecciones : grippe, tifoidea, fiebres puerperales, estreptococcicas, estafilococcicas, flemones, colecistitis, angiocolitis, ictericias, piletis, pileonefritis, cistitis, uretritis, etc. / Laboratorios Ambard.
  • An infected hand being raised in salute to a skull, representing the fatal effect of septicaemia. Lithograph after Pat Keely, 1943.
  • Cada inyección de Neosepticemine : provoca descenso en la temperatura sin "choc" ni reacción / Laboratorios Brunschwig & Co.
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