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Fingernails
Fingernails help us to do all sorts of things, consciously or absent-mindedly.
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Keeping death close
Scattering her father’s ashes, Lauren Entwistle found herself longing for something physical that proved he once was a living, breathing person. Here she reflects on the objects that help us to grieve and remember.
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Electrical epilepsy and the EEG Test
The EEG (electroencephalograph) literally electrified the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. But for Aparna Nair the dreaded EEG tests of her adolescence were a painful ordeal.
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The blight of the ballooning blood vessels
In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.
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An Indian sadhu with very long fingernails is holding his arm up above his head. Ink drawing with pencil and watercolour by WB.
Date: 1856Reference: 37989i
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A sadhu with raised arm and overgrown fingernails, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 30730iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos
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An old Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, with left arm raised above his head, and overgrown fingernails. Gouache painting.
Reference: 566946i
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A Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, with withered left arm raised over his head, and overgrown fingernails. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
Date: 1880Reference: 566798i
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A hand with cracked and diseased fingernails; and the upper half of a face with severe hair loss (missing brows and lashes). Chromolithograph, c. 1888.
Reference: 34846i