Stories
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When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
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Between two summers
As Michael Malay tends his allotment, absorbing all the sensations of his surroundings, he finds the repetition of work calms the mind.
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The blight of the ballooning blood vessels
In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.
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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.
Catalogue
- Books
Swelling grounds : a history of Hackney Workhouse (1729-1929) / Paul Montair.
Montair, PaulDate: [1995]- Pictures
Swelling in nose of a male patient: detail sketch with highlighted swelling. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1957.
Nicholson, BarbaraDate: 1957Reference: 35823iPart of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.- Archives and manuscripts
Frank Hawking Photographs: Hands Showing Calabar Swelling
Date: c.1930s-1940sReference: WTI/HAW/C/1/32Part of: Hawking, Frank
- Digital Images
- Online
Tortoise: swelling on thigh - haematoma
Royal Veterinary College
- Digital Images
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Copper deficiency: swelling of the fetlock
Royal Veterinary College