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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Coasting to catastrophe
In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.
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A description and explanation of the method of performing post-mortem examinations in the dead-house of the Berlin Charité Hospital : with especial reference to medico-legal practice / by Rudolph Virchow ; translated from the second German edition by T.P. Smith.
Virchow, Rudolf Karl, 1821-1902.Date: 1880- Pictures
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The diseased anus and scrotum of a man, as seen from behind, with two fingers on the buttocks to hold them apart; and a detail of a diseased penis. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1858.
D'Alton, Christopher, active 1847-1871.Date: 1858Reference: 38329i- Books
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Die neueren Fortschritte in der Wissenschaft und ihr Einfluss auf Medicin und Chirurgie : gelesen in der Charing Cross Hospital Medical School zu London am 3. October 1898 / von Rudolf Virchow.
Virchow, Rudolf Karl, 1821-1902.Date: 1898- Journals
Report / German Hospital.
German Hospital (London, England)Date: 1845-- Books
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Report : 1932 / German Hospital.
German Hospital (London, England)Date: 1932