Stories
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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
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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
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Via medica : a treatise on the laws and customs of the medical profession in relation especially to principals and assistants ; with suggestions and advice to students on preliminary education.
Langley, John Baxter, 1819-1892.Date: 1871- Books
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Via medica : a treatise on the laws and customs of the medical profession in relation especially to principals and assistants : with suggestions and advice to students on preliminary education / by J. Baxter Langley.
Date: 1867- Books
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Bye-laws, ordinances, rules, and constitutions, made and ordained by the Master, Governors and Court of Assistants, of the Royal College of Surgeons in London : at a Court of Assistants of the said college, holden at the college, on the eighth day of January, MDCCCII.
Royal College of Surgeons of England.Date: 1802- Books
The Soviet feldsher as a physician's assistant / by Patrick B. Storey.
Storey, Patrick B.Date: 1972- Pictures
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A physician lecturing to students about uroscopy, he points to a flask held by an assistant. Heliotype.
Reference: 21658i