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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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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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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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Getting under the skin

Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.

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  • Japanese/Chinese woodcut: Pathology of pterygium
  • Chinese woodcut: Pathology of 'obstructive throat wind'
  • Chinese woodcut: Pathology of 'entwining throat wind'
  • Chinese woodcut: Pathology of 'pouchy jaw' throat abscess
  • Plate 53. Pathology of the male genitalia, urinary organs.
  • Pathology in two dinosaurs (a, b, c & d)
  • McAll's translation of A TextBook of Pathology
  • Contents page to 'Studies in Bioloy and Pathology' in Creighton's handwriting
  • The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington.
  • Second contents page to 'Studies in Bioloy and Pathology' in Creighton's handwriting
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