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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?

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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.

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  • Surgical instruments for the treatment of leg injuries. Engraving by E. Mitchell.
  • Horse's legs: vertical lines due to injury
  • The victim of a railway accident approaching the railway board's directors for compensation for his extensive injuries. Watercolour by C.W.D., 1866.
  • A wounded leg with a quilled suture. Stipple engraving by J. Bell.
  • A splint for a broken limb. Etching by J. Bell.
  • Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Engraving.
  • Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Coloured engraving.
  • Advertisment for a thigh splint: two figures, including an illustration showing the splint in place on a bandaged limb. Engraving with etching, 1830/1860?.
  • A diagram illustrating an apparatus to bind together a broken leg. Etching by J. Bell.
  • Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Engraving on yellow silk by P. Bohacz.
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