Stories
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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.
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
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Getting the measure of pain
In the 20th century doctors tried to find a way to measure pain. But even when ‘objective’ measures were rejected, an accurate understanding of another’s pain remained frustratingly elusive.
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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.
Catalogue
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Student bodies : the influence of student health services in American society & medicine / Heather Munro Prescott.
Prescott, Heather Munro.Date: [2007], ©2007
- Books
- Online
The practice of medicine / by M. Charteris.
Charteris, M. (Matthew), 1840-1897.Date: 1891
- Books
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The practice of medicine / by M. Charteris.
Charteris, M. (Matthew), 1840-1897.Date: 1891
- Books
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The practice of medicine / by M. Charteris.
Charteris, M. (Matthew), 1840-1897.Date: 1894- Books
Religion and medicine : a discussion / edited by M.A.H. Melinsky.
Date: 1970
