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Synaesthesia, or when senses overlap

What’s it like to see heartbeats, taste Tube stations or hear paintings?

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The search for a cure for endometriosis

Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.

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The extraction of the excruciating bladder stones

Among those vying to find alternatives to major surgery for bladder stones, young doctor Jean Civiale stood out, painstakingly honing a method that was to become the norm.

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The conditional child

Deanna Fei asks what it means to sustain a life, drawing on her own experience of having a premature baby as well as an 18th-century essay.

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  • A W L Tube with Vacuum Regulator
  • Chroloform anaesthesia maintained by a Junker's Tube.
  • X-ray tubes. Modified version of the Coolidge tube. G.R. Doglass insert tube (water-cooled) tube.
  • Metal syringe, with metal urethral tube and bone rectal tube
  • Neural tube
  • Neural tube
  • X-ray tube. Type of tube suitable for use with moderate currents. Inscribed 'Original Muller X-ray tube No. 81577'.
  • An X-ray tube, common type. Inscribed 'Instanta' Tube - Macalister-Wiggin Pattern. Sole British Manufacturers Newton and Wright. Bears Ministry of Munitions Label.
  • Early heart tube
  • Developing neural tube
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