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Demanding a diagnosis for invisible pain
After dozens of hospital visits and handfuls of painkillers, a plethora of scans and tests bring diagnosis closer for Jaipreet Virdi.
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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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The pain that punished feminists
In a society that viewed getting the vote, and pursuing an education and career, as unnatural goals for women, the pain of endometriosis was viewed as nature’s retribution.
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On contagion
Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.
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Abdomen affected by circumscribed scleroderma
Godart, Thomas- Digital Images
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Abdomen of child affected with ascites
Godart, Thomas- Digital Images
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Abdomen from a case of epidermolysis bullosa
Yetts, Walter Perceval- Digital Images
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Abdomen from a case of pityriasis rubra pilaris
St Bartholomew's Hospital Photographic Society- Digital Images
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Abdomen of girl who had extroversion of the bladder
McWhinnie, Andrew Melville