Stories
- In pictures
Bloodletting at the barber-surgeon’s
Scratchy throat? Burning fever? Broken heart? It all comes down to the same issue: too much blood.
- Article
The problem of the punctured heart
During World War II a young American surgeon working in England perfected shrapnel-removal techniques that saved dozens of lives. Discover how one case sealed his reputation as the founder of cardiac surgery.
- Book extract
How to stay together while keeping apart
Vivek Murthy explores how we can keep physically distant while staying emotionally connected.
- Article
The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.
Catalogue
- Books
Surgeons' Hall : a museum anthology / Dawn Kemp with Sara Barnes.
Kemp, Dawn.Date: 2009- Books
Surgeons' lives : Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh : an anthology of College Fellows over 500 years / edited by Iain Macintyre and Iain MacLaren.
Date: 2005- Archives and manuscripts
Surgeons. Lists of recommendations by Association of Surgeons and Royal College of Surgeons
Date: 1949-1950Reference: PP/CMW/D.6/4Part of: Lord Moran (Charles McMoran Wilson) (1882-1977): archives- Archives and manuscripts
Surgeons All.
Date: 1939Reference: WA/HMM/CT/C.12Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Books
Surgeons in the field / [John Laffin].
Laffin, John.Date: 1970
