Stories
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The problem of the punctured heart
During World War II a young American surgeon working in England perfected shrapnel-removal techniques that saved dozens of lives. Discover how one case sealed his reputation as the founder of cardiac surgery.
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The blight of the ballooning blood vessels
In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.
- Book extract
The castration effect
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
- Photo story
Transitioning and the family album
“It’s really hard to describe to people how you know you’re a man when those ways of describing masculinity to me aren’t true. You need to find your own.”
Catalogue
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Intra-thoracic surgery : bronchotomy through the chest-wall for foreign bodies impacted in the bronchi / by De Forest Willard.
Willard, De Forest, 1846-1910.Date: 1891- Archives and manuscripts
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Dentistry [DEN] - Institutions [INS]
Date: 1930s-1950sReference: WA/HMM/IC/3/P.5Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Videos
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Atrial septal secundum defect : the physical diagnosis of a common cardiac lesion corrected by surgery.
Date: 1964- Archives and manuscripts
Marvin Francis Sturridge
Sturridge, Marvin Francis, b. 1926Date: 1959-1979Reference: PP/STU- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd