Stories
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When wounds replace words
For the many thousands of refugees waiting in Greece, the process to establish the truth of their tragic personal histories is often extremely upsetting. But a group of medics and legal workers is working together to make the system more humane.
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Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
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Blood money: Taking periods out of poverty
Periods are not a wound that needs to heal, nor is the blood a sign of injury. So why are we still so repelled by them?
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Duelling doctors
An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.
Catalogue
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The after treatment of wounds and injuries / by R.C. Elmslie.
Elmslie, R. C. (Reginald Cheyne), 1878-Date: 1919- Books
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The New Zealand War of 1863-64-65 : special report on wounds and injuries received in battle / by Inspector-General Mouat.
Mouat, James, 1815-1899.Date: [between 1860 and 1869?]- Books
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Devonshire hospital and Buxton Bath charity : instituted for the relief of poor persons from all parts of Great Britain and Ireland suffering from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and neuralgia ; pains, weakness or contractions of joints or limbs, arising from these diseases, or from sprains, fractures, or other local injuries ; chronic forms of paralysis ; dropped hands, and other poisonous effects of lead, mercury, or other minerals ; spinal affections ; dyspeptic complaints, uterine obstructions, etc. etc. ; supported by annual subscriptions and voluntary contributions : annual report for the year 1881 ; completion of the hospital extension ; action and purpose of the governors of the cotton districts convalescent fund ; management, history, annual statement, accounts, meteorological report and tables, rules and regulations, list of subscriptions and benefactions &c., Bath charity report for 1785, and copies of conveyances of hospital and baths from the Duke of Devonshire to the trustees.
Devonshire Royal Hospital (Buxton, Derbyshire, England)Date: 1882- Pictures
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Bones of the ankle, and part of the foot and leg. Radiograph, 1900/1904.
Date: 1900Reference: 38515i- Books
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Les lésions traumatiques de l'articulation du cou-de-pied : etude anatomique, clinique, historique et thérapeutique sur les lésions pénétrantes et infectées de l'articulation tibio-tarsienne et principalement de celles par armes à feu / par Ernest Demiéville.
Demiéville, Ernest.Date: 1907