Stories
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
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The relation of the medical department to the health of armies : the Enno Sander prize essay for 1904 / by William Hill-Climo.
Hill-Climo, William.Date: 1905- Books
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The Sanitary Commission of the United States Army : a succinct narrative of its works and purposes.
Date: 1864- Books
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A digest of the vital statistics of the European and native armies in India : interspersed with suggestions for the eradication and mitigation of the preventible and avoidable causes of sickness and mortality amongst imported and indigenous troops / by Joseph Ewart.
Ewart, Joseph, Sir, 1831-1906.Date: 1859- Pictures
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An army medical officer trying to find out from an ignorant soldier if he knows where his arteries are. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1907.
Raven-Hill, L. (Leonard), 1867-1942.Date: 1907Reference: 15356i- Pictures
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A soldier being interviewed for the medical corps who doesn't know where his spleen is. Wood engraving, 1912.
Date: 1912Reference: 15397i