Stories
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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?
- Book extract
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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The current that kills
In the 19th century, electricity held life in the balance, with the power to execute – or reanimate.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Arterial injuries: traumatic aneurysm, trunk, leg
Date: 1943-1954Reference: RAMC/2089/8Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Pictures
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Surgical instruments for the treatment of leg injuries. Engraving by E. Mitchell.
Mitchell, E., active approximately 1811.Reference: 47799i- Pictures
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The victim of a railway accident approaching the railway board's directors for compensation for his extensive injuries. Watercolour by C.W.D., 1866.
D., C. W., active 1866.Date: 1866Reference: 12109i- Archives and manuscripts
‘Rehabilitation exercises. Series II: suspension exercises for recent leg injuries’, The Journal of the Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics, Oct 1940, with related correspondence with MJ McMain, Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital, Northampton, and printing block illustrating apparatus.
Date: Sep 1943-Jan 1944Reference: SA/CSP/P/4/1/11Part of: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy- Digital Images
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Horse's legs: vertical lines due to injury
Royal Veterinary College