Stories
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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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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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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 castration effect
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
Catalogue
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Home of Professor William Dick. Back of the White Horse Close, near the Water-Gate.
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Portrait of Professor William Dick from postcard
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Home of Professor William Dick
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Medical science exhibits : a century of progress, Chicago world's fair, 1933 and 1934, medicine, surgery, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, hospitals, veterinary medicine / by Eben J. Carey.
Carey, Eben J. (Eben James), 1889-Date: [1936], ©1936- Archives and manuscripts
Medical miscellany
Fretchwell, Nathaniell, fl. 1674, of St Clement Danes, Middlesex, apothecaryDate: 1662-1907Reference: MS.9276