Stories
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The evolution of war-zone medicine
The need to deal with battlefield injuries has led to inventive designs for extreme situations. Find out how camel-drawn ambulances and flat-pack hospitals have helped casualties survive.
- Article
Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
Catalogue
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Emergency treatment of dento facial abscesses.
Date: Between 1900 and 1999- Archives and manuscripts
The way ahead: accident and emergency services 2001, published by The British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine, 1992, annotated by RHH
Date: 1992Reference: GP/12/C.11Part of: Hardy, Richard Henry (b. 1921)- Archives and manuscripts
The Directory of Emergency and Special Care Units
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1987Reference: GC/253/A/42/7/5Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
The Directory of Emergency & Special Care Units 1991
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1991Reference: GC/253/A/42/7/19Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
The Directory of Emergency & Special Care Units 1996
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1996Reference: GC/253/A/42/7/21Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars