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The extraction of the excruciating bladder stones
Among those vying to find alternatives to major surgery for bladder stones, young doctor Jean Civiale stood out, painstakingly honing a method that was to become the norm.
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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Why pandemic denial is nothing new
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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Typhoid, the destroyer of armies, and its abolition ; The theory of air-borne typhoid in armies / by Leigh Canney.
Canney, Leigh.Date: 1901
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On the Geneva Convention of August the 22nd, 1864 : with some account of the national committees formed for aiding in ameliorating the condition of the sick and wounded of armies in time of war : a lecture delivered at the Royal United Service Institution.
Longmore, Sir Thomas, 1816-1895.Date: [1866]- Archives and manuscripts
"Armies exist to go to war - not to hospital", Health Notes from the Office of the Surgeon AFHQ
Date: c.1944Reference: GC/200/D/1/9Part of: Chalke, Dr Herbert Davies (1897-1979)- Archives and manuscripts
"Armies exist to go to war - not to hospital", Health Notes from the Office of the Surgeon AFHQ
Date: c.1944Reference: GC/200/B/7/1Part of: Chalke, Dr Herbert Davies (1897-1979)
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Report on epidemic cholera in the Army of the United States, during the year 1866 / War Department, Surgeon General's Office.
Date: 1867