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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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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances

In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.

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Surviving a flesh-eating disease

Nearly dying from a skin infection gave Scott Neill a chance to start again after an early life marked by grief and depression.

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The law of periodicity for menstruation

Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.

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  • Manchester & Salford Hospital for Diseases of the Skin: facade. Photolithograph, 1903.
  • Hospital of St. John the Baptist, Winchester, Hampshire: floor plan for the church and chapel. Transfer lithograph.
  • National Hospital for Incurables and St. Mary's Church, Cowley St. John, Oxford: with a floor plan. Photolithographny J. Akerman, 1873, after C. Buckeridge.
  • National Hospital for Incurables and St. Mary's Church, Cowley St. John, Oxford. Transfer lithograph by J. Akerman, 1873, after C. Buckeridge.
  • A map of London: showing sites of medical and other interest in the City of London, and Westminster. Coloured lithograph, 1913.
  • A map of London: showing sites of medical and other interest in the City of London, and Westminster. Coloured lithograph, 1913.
  • A map of London: showing sites of medical interest in Lambeth, Pimlico, Southwark and Westminster. Coloured lithograph, 1913.
  • A map of London: showing sites of medical interest in Lambeth, Pimlico, Southwark and Westminster. Coloured lithograph, 1913.
  • Man with a ringworm infection on his back
  • Flank of a man with a ringworm infection
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