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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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The work of wet-nursing
Many of us know that in the past, babies were sometimes nourished by wet-nurses. But, perhaps surprisingly, the practice continues today – and the milk recipients are not only babies.
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The 200-year search for normal people
Sarah Chaney poses the question we’ve likely all asked at some point in our lives: 'Am I normal?’, and explores whether normality even exists.
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Dogs with their keepers at the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
Date: [1904]Reference: 11931i- Pictures
Five dogs used as experimental animals at the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
Date: [1904]Reference: 11932i
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Ten members of staff studying and performing experiments on dogs in the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
Date: [1904]Reference: 11939i
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Five dogs undergoing experiments on gastric secretion in the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
Date: [1904]Reference: 11949i
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A basement (possibly the pre-operative room in the Physiology Department), Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg, with dogs, cages, and two animal-keepers. Photograph, 1904.
Date: [1904]Reference: 11947i