Stories
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Hands-on healthcare
A young hospital volunteer feared her contribution was a long way from the serious business of real healthcare. But time spent painting patients’ nails proved to be a valuable contribution to life on the ward.
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The search for a cure for endometriosis
Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.
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Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
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Notes on the treatment of skin diseases / by Robert Liveing.
Date: 1877- Books
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The student's book of cutaneous medicine and diseases of the skin / by Erasmus Wilson.
Date: 1864-1865- Books
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Therapie der Hautkrankheiten / von L. Leistikow; mit einem Vorwort von P.G. Unna.
Date: 1897- Books
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Phototherapy : (1) the chemical rays of light and small-pox--(2) light as a stimulant--(3) the treatment of lupus vulgaris by concentrated chemical rays / by Niels R. Finsen ; translated from the German edition, and with an appendix on the light treatment of lupus ; by James H. Sequeira.
Date: 1901- Books
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Ointments and oleates especially in diseases of the skin / by John V. Shoemaker.
Date: 1890