Stories
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Lindsey Fitzharris’s prescription for writing
The Wellcome Book Prize shortlisted author of ‘The Butchering Art’ answers five questions on health, inspiration and storytelling.
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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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The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
Catalogue
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Joseph Lister, Baron Lister. Photogravure.
Reference: 14444i- Archives and manuscripts
Joseph Lister
Date: 1927Reference: WA/HMM/EX/APart of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Pictures
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, with a portrait of his father Joseph Jackson Lister. Oil painting.
Reference: 581881i
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Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister. Photogravure.
Reference: 5874i
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Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister. Lithograph.
Reference: 9948i