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.
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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
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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