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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.

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  • Clinique de l'Hôpital Saint-Louis, ou traité complet des maladies de la peau. Contenant la description de ces maladies et leurs meilleurs modes de traitement / [Jean-Louis-Marie Alibert].
  • Clinique de l'Hôpital Saint-Louis, ou traité complet des maladies de la peau. Contenant la description de ces maladies et leurs meilleurs modes de traitement / [Jean-Louis-Marie Alibert].
  • Light and X-ray treatment of skin diseases / by Malcolm Morris and S. Ernest Dore.
  • Salvo Petrolio : the perfection of petroleum jelly : absolutely genuine parafinum molle of the purest form / The Dee Oil Company Ltd.
  • Scabiplastine : pate colloïdale soufrée zwavelhoudende zalf.
  • Scabiplastine : pate colloïdale soufrée zwavelhoudende zalf.
  • Scabiplastine : pate colloïdale soufrée zwavelhoudende zalf.
  • Scabiplastine : pate colloïdale soufrée zwavelhoudende zalf.
  • Eade's Antibilious Pills.
  • [Leaflet advertising ARU herbal products by Rosie Laing. ].
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