Stories
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Bubbles of history
Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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The search for a cure for endometriosis
Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.
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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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Notes on the mediaeval leper hospitals of Ireland / by T.W. Belcher.
Date: 1868- Archives and manuscripts
University College Hospital (St. Pancras Hospital)
Date: Sep 1963 - Oct 1963Reference: PENROSE/2/41/13/2/34Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
St. Paul's Hospital
Date: Jan 1963 - Feb 1963Reference: PENROSE/2/41/13/2/28Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
University College Hospital Medical School
Date: Sep 1956 - Oct 1956Reference: PENROSE/2/40/6/43Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Books
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Mélanges de chirurgie, ou Histoire médicochirurgicale de l'Hotel-Dieu de Lyon depuis sa fondation jusqu'a nos jours : avec l'histoire spéciale de la syphilis dans cet hospice, et compte-rendu de la pratique chirurgicale de cet hôpital pendant six années, 1838-1843 / par J. -E. Petrequin.
Date: 1845