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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 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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Hands-on healthcare

A young hospital volunteer feared her contribution was a long way from the serious business of real healthcare. But time spent painting patients’ nails proved to be a valuable contribution to life on the ward.

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How shame makes us sick

The fight-or-flight response can have long-term consequences for our bodies if left unchecked. Lucia Osborne-Crowley investigates how shame and trauma are connected, and how both can lead to chronic ill health.

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  • Downward transmission of yin diseases of the interior
  • The Ebola virus
  • The Ebola virus
  • Japanese/Chinese woodcut: Infectious 'red-eye' (chiyan)
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - boil on the earlobe
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - boil between the eyebrows
  • Diseases spread by the house fly. Colour lithograph by L.H. Wilder for the U.S. Public Health Service, 1912/1922.
  • C15 Chinese medical primer: Correlations of the pulses
  • Five images of busy street scenes in Japan representing an advertisement for the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph, ca. 1994.
  • Five images of busy street scenes in Japan representing an advertisement for the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph, ca. 1994.
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