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Printing the body

The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.

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The anatomy of a brain dissection

Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.

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Making sunstroke insanity

Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.

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It’s getting mighty crowded

Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.

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  • Royal Free Hospital, London: the interior of the museum in the pathological block. Process print, 1913.
  • Second International Congress for Comparative Pathology, Paris: four foreign delegates. Process print after M. Rose (?), 1931.
  • Royal Free Hospital, London: the interior of the post-mortem room in the pathological block. Process print, 1913.
  • Christ carrying the cross amidst a long procession. Engraving by N. Larmessin after Raphael.
  • Three lumbar vertebrae, one of which is fractured
  • Three lumbar vertebrae, one of which is fractured
  • Five drawings of fractured lumbar vertebrae
  • Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-related lymphoproliferative disease
  • Exhibition '100 Years of medical Photography', 1955.
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