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Medical manipulations and the history of physiotherapy

From gymnastics to splints and uterine massage, the history of physiotherapy takes in a surprisingly broad range of people and practices.

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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists

Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.

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The hidden history of homesickness

Gail Tolley delves into the history of homesickness and discovers that its rich past holds a clue to how we view the experience today.

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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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  • Women taking leave of British soldiers about to depart on ship from England to India, 1857. Process print after Henry O'Neil.
  • Spanish soldiers slaughtering and drowning men and women in the streets of Maastricht. Etching.
  • Franco-Prussian War: women carrying wounded soldiers to hospital at Ivanitza. Coloured wood engraving by A.H.
  • Two women visit two soldiers at their training camp on Coxhead Common, Kent. Engraving after T. Stothard, 1781.
  • Crimean War: women nurses tending wounded soldiers as "woman's mission". Coloured lithograph by J.A. Vinter, 1854, after H. Barraud.
  • Soldiers plundering a convent, killing and raping the men and women that resist them. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients receiving women visitors, but a black soldier has no visitor. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • The massacre of Huguenots at Tours: men and women are shot, slaughtered with swords or clubbed to death in the water by soldiers. Etching.
  • Boer War: soldiers in packed train carriages receive tea from women and children on the ground. Halftone, c.1900, after H. Paget after M. Ellis.
  • The massacre of Huguenots at Tours: men and women are shot by soldiers, slaughtered with swords or clubbed to death in the water by townsfolk. Woodcut by J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.
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