Stories
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Guide dogs or good dogs from the Middle Ages
Medieval illustrations often show blind people, sometimes with dogs. But working out whether these were actually guide dogs involves a mix of detailed detective work and expert speculation.
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Are doctors medical detectives?
Do doctors really identify medical conditions in the same way that detectives solve crimes? Neurologist Jules Montague makes her diagnosis.
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A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Press Adverts - Dips and Livestock Remedies
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: Mar 1930 - 12 Jan 1943Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
[Press Adverts] - Veterinary
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: 1958 - 1966Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The gentleman farrier. Containing instructions for the choice, and directions in the management of horses, either for draught or pleasure, on a journey, or in the stable; with an account of their distempers, and receipts for the cure of them. To which is added an appendix, concerning dogs, either for the Field or the Lap, wherein their diseases are describ'd, and the means to cure them. The horse-receipts by his late Grace of Devonshire, Earl of Orrery, Lord Carleton, Sir John Packington, General Seymour, Portman Seymour, Esq; James Nicholson, Esq; - Thornton, Esq; of Bloxham, &c. Published by the direction of a person of quality.
Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Patzig - Phillis
Date: 1950-1988Reference: PP/MLV/C/16/5Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)