Stories
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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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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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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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How shame makes us sick
The fight-or-flight response can have long-term consequences for our bodies if left unchecked. Lucia Osborne-Crowley investigates how shame and trauma are connected, and how both can lead to chronic ill health.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Abdominal Pain
Date: 1950sReference: PP/GWP/C/6/1Part of: Pickering, Sir George White- Books
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Abdominal pain / by J.H. Musser.
Musser, John Herr, 1856-1912.Date: 1904- Books
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Abdominal pain : clinical lecture delivered at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.Date: 1899- Books
Abdominal pain : its causes and clinical significance / by A. Ernest Maylard.
Maylard, A. Ernest (Alfred Ernest), 1854-1947.Date: 1906- Books
Abdominal pain / by John Morley ; with an introduction by J.S.B. Stopford.
Morley, John.Date: 1931