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The fast and the spurious
Extreme fasting has captured the public imagination for centuries. What pushes people to claim to go without food for improbable lengths of time?
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
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The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
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When you can’t return home
Migrants and refugees cannot choose to return home, so homesickness becomes a profound and long-lasting feeling. This powerful force infuses migrant cultures, and is rarely given the serious attention it warrants.
![Essays on several important subjects in surgery: chiefly on the nature and cure of fractures of the long bones of the extremities. Particularly those of the thigh and leg, whether simple of compound : for which a new method of retention is proposed. The whole illustrated with cooper-plates / [John Aitken].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0023981/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Essays on several important subjects in surgery: chiefly on the nature and cure of fractures of the long bones of the extremities. Particularly those of the thigh and leg, whether simple of compound : for which a new method of retention is proposed. The whole illustrated with cooper-plates / [John Aitken].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0030170/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
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A lecture, On the Situation of the large Blood-Vessels of the Extremities; and the Methods of making effectual Pressure on the Arteries, in Cases of dangerous Effusions of Blood from Wounds: delivered to the scholars of the late maritime school at Chelsea; And first printed for their Use. Third edition. To which is now added, A brief Explanation of the Nature of Wounds, More particularly those received from Fire-Arms. By William Blizard, F. R. S.
Blizard, William, Sir, 1743-1835.Date: 1798- Books
Circulation in the extremities / David I. Abramson.
Abramson, David I. (David Irvin), 1905-2002.Date: 1967- Books
Surgical treatment of unequal extremities / by Charles Weer Goff.
Goff, Charles Weer, 1897-1975.Date: [1960]- Books
Circulatory diseases of the extremities / by John Homans.
Winkle, Wilber.Date: 1939- Books
An atlas of surgical exposures of the extremities / Sam W. Banks, Harold Laufman.
Banks, Sam W. (Samuel Wallace), 1905-Date: [1953]
