Stories
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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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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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The meanings of hurt
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'Riboflavin deprived baboons. Pathology - skin, mouth, oesophagus. Mar-Nov 1969'
Date: March 1969-November 1969Reference: PP/FAK/A/1/1/3Part of: Foy, Henry (1900-1991), and Kondi, Athena (d.1994), Haematologists and nutrition researchers- Books
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On the importance of the functions of the skin, in the pathology and treatment of tubercular consumption / by Abraham Toulmin.
Toulmin, Abraham.Date: 1861- Books
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Experimental observations on the pathology of lupus : with notes on three cases of lupus or tuberculosis of the skin of the hand / by Frederic S. Eve.
Eve, Frederick Samuel, Sir, 1853-1916.Date: 1888- Books
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Practical handbook of the pathology of the skin : an introduction to the histology, pathology, and bacteriology of the skin, with special reference to technique / by J.M.H. MacLeod.
Date: 1903- Archives and manuscripts
Grab - Grüneberg
Date: 1954-1988Reference: PP/MLV/C/7/9Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)