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Getting under the skin

Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.

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Beating the bodysnatchers

When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.

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A brief history of ventilation

As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.

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Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles

Some people will use a dose of ginger to help with hangovers – but it hasn’t always been a friend to the thirsty.

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  • London Board of Health searching the city for cholera during the 1832 epidemic. Lithograph, 1832.
  • Remedies for cholera, 1832
  • Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt. Lithograph by C. Bazin, 1832, after F. P. S. Gérard, 1832.
  • François Vincent Raspail. Lithograph, 1832 [?].
  • A corpse is lifted from the back of a wagon during the 1832 cholera epidemic. Coloured lithograph, c. 1832.
  • Joseph Frank. Lithograph by G. Cornienti, 1832.
  • The covenant. Mezzotint by J. Martin, 1832.
  • Hairstyles through history. 12, French lady 1832.
  • Hairstyles through history. 12, French lady 1832.
  • Hairstyles through history. 12, French lady 1832.
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