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Bleeding healthy

For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.

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Our complicated love affair with light

Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.

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Milk trails round Euston

Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.

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Remote diagnosis from wee to the Web

Medical practice might have moved on from when patients posted flasks of their urine for doctors to taste, but telehealth today keeps up the tradition of remote diagnosis – to our possible detriment.

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  • Florence Nightingale, 1820-1856 : a study of her life down to the end of the Crimean war / by I.B. O'Malley.
  • Florence Nightingale, 1820-1856 : a study of her life down to the end of the Crimean war / by I.B. O'Malley.
  • Florence Nightingale, 1820-1856 : a study of her life down to the end of the Crimean war / by I.B. O'Malley.
  • Eastern hospitals and English nurses : the narrative of twelve months' experience in the hospitals of Koulali and Scutari / by a lady volunteer.
  • A hospital ward in the military hospital, Portsea. Wood engraving by W. Thomas, 1855.
  • A hospital ward in the military hospital, Portsea. Wood engraving by W. Thomas, 1855.
  • American Civil War: officers saluting the wounded being brought in after the battle of Lewinsville, Virginia, 1861. Wood engraving by F. Skill.
  • My story of the war : a woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the Union army, and in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the front, during the war of the rebellion / [Mary Ashton Livermore].
  • My story of the war : a woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the Union army, and in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the front, during the war of the rebellion / [Mary Ashton Livermore].
  • Boxer Movement, China: showing how Midshipman Guy obtained his Victoria Cross. Watercolour by G. Soper, 1900.
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