Stories
- Article
When skin bleaching goes wrong
Warnings about permanent health damage don’t deter those using skin-bleaching products for years on end. Read the story of one woman who suffered from liver failure after years of striving to be paler.
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The poetic language of health
When his doctors could only offer phone consultations, James Morland turned to poetry to make sense of the medical terms describing his symptoms and test results.
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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.
Catalogue
- Pictures
Sudden onset of ischaemia in a female patient with mesenteric thrombosis and bowel cancer: sketch of legs, anterior view, showing gross blue discolouration and swelling. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1952.
Nicholson, BarbaraDate: 1952Reference: 34504iPart of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.- Books
Get me through tomorrow : a sister's memoir of brain injury and revival / Mojie Crigler.
Crigler, MojieDate: [2015]- Digital Images
- Online
Chinese woodcut: The five spheres (wu lun) of the eye
- Videos
Fight for life. Part 6, The final years.
Date: 2007- Videos
The squid and its giant nerve fibre.
Date: 1976