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Pain and the power of touch
As a new physiotherapist, Fiona Murphy quickly learned that her patients’ pain was unpredictable and very personal. But using the right words became the key to helping them.
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The blood notebooks
Novelist Rupert Thomson explores his unusual behaviour during a time of self-imposed isolation.
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How I cured my fear of vomiting
Emetophobia ruled every waking moment of Alex’s life. Until he came to realise he couldn’t live that way any more.
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The side effects of lithium mining
Laura Grace Simpkins attempts to untangle some uncomfortable truths about the social and environmental costs of making her medication.
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Freckle removal: a woman with freckles on her face prior to having them removed by a skin peel. Photograph by André Just, ca. 1937.
Just, André.Date: 1937Reference: 580532i- Pictures
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Freckle removal: a woman's face following a skin peel to remove her freckles; a few remain around the eye area. Photograph by André Just, ca. 1937.
Just, André.Date: 1937Reference: 580533i- Pictures
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Freckle removal: a woman having a skin peel to remove freckles reclines with a metal contraption positioning her head and a breathing tube in her mouth, Hungary. Photograph by André Just, ca. 1937.
Just, André.Date: 1937Reference: 580530i- Pictures
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Initial dissection of the pregnant female abdomen, showing the skin peeled away to reveal the swollen uterus. Copperplate engraving by F.S. Ravenet after I.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.
Rymsdyk, Jan van, active 1750-1788.Date: [1851]Reference: 579790iPart of: Anatomia uteri humani gravidi.- Pictures
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Front view of the pregnant uterus and pelvic area, showing the skin peeled away to reveal the swollen womb. Copperplate engraving by R. Strange after I.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.
Rymsdyk, Jan van, active 1750-1788.Date: [1851]Reference: 579795iPart of: Anatomia uteri humani gravidi.