Stories
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Why even plastic surgery can’t hide you from facial recognition
Once upon a time, plastic surgery allowed a few notorious criminals to evade the law. But today, sophisticated facial-recognition technology has turned dreams of anonymity to dust.
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The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
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Ken’s ten: looking back at ten years of Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection founder Ken Arnold picks his favourite exhibits.
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Would you like to buy a unicorn?
The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.
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A new operation for spasmodic wry-neck : namely, division or exsection of the nerves supplying the posterior rotator muscles of the head / by W.W. Keen.
Keen, William W. (William Williams), 1837-1932.Date: 1891- Books
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Severe burn of top of head at seven months of age, followed by necrosis of entire osseous cap of cranium : at fourteen years of age detachment of the entire calvarium by circular craniotomy for epilepsy and defective mental development / by William Williams Keen.
Keen, William W. (William Williams), 1837-1932.Date: [1907]- Books
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On some points in the surgery of the urinary organs / by Reginald Harrison.
Harrison, Reginald, 1837-1908.Date: 1888- Books
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Observations on the surgical anatomy of the head and neck : illustrated by cases and engravings / by Allan Burns.
Date: 1811- Books
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A report on excisions of the head of the femur for gunshot injury / War Department, Surgeon General's Office.
Date: 1869