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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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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

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  • AIDS : don't die of ignorance : government information 1987 / issued by the Department of Health and Social Security.
  • AIDS : don't die of ignorance : government information 1987 / issued by the Department of Health and Social Security.
  • AIDS : don't die of ignorance : government information 1987 / issued by the Department of Health and Social Security.
  • AIDS : don't die of ignorance : government information 1987 / issued by the Department of Health and Social Security.
  • N. Grew, the anatomy of plants / With an ide
  • T. Birch, The History of the Royal Society
  • Perkin jubilee of the coal-tar industry / The Committee of Fifteen, Chas. F. Chandler, chairman [and others].
  • Perkin jubilee of the coal-tar industry / The Committee of Fifteen, Chas. F. Chandler, chairman [and others].
  • Perkin jubilee of the coal-tar industry / The Committee of Fifteen, Chas. F. Chandler, chairman [and others].
  • Section of the dorsal (?) rib cage showing multiply fractured ribs. Watercolour in grisaille by S. A. Sewell, ca. 1918.
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