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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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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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The current that kills

In the 19th century, electricity held life in the balance, with the power to execute – or reanimate.

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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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  • Post-mortem manual : a handbook of morbid anatomy and post-mortem technique / by Charles R. Box.
  • Acute erysipelas in the pig, post-mortem
  • Acute erysipelas in the pig, post-mortem
  • Post-mortem methods / by J. Martin Beattie.
  • Air sac of a snake (post-mortem).
  • Interior of a snake's lung (post-mortem).
  • Face of a man showing post mortem discolouration
  • Face and chest of man showing post mortem discolouration
  • Plate LXV, Post-mortem view of enlarged lymphoma glands.
  • Post-mortem pathology : a manual of post-mortem examinations and the interpretations to be drawn therefrom a practical treatise for students and practitioners / by Henry W. Cattell.
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