Stories
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Synaesthesia, or when senses overlap
What’s it like to see heartbeats, taste Tube stations or hear paintings?
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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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The extraction of the excruciating bladder stones
Among those vying to find alternatives to major surgery for bladder stones, young doctor Jean Civiale stood out, painstakingly honing a method that was to become the norm.
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The conditional child
Deanna Fei asks what it means to sustain a life, drawing on her own experience of having a premature baby as well as an 18th-century essay.
Catalogue
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Tubes made by Drägerwerk A.G. for testing the presence of chemicals, arranged in a sphere. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 979871i- Archives and manuscripts
Alphabetical "BD Purchase Record" cards: "tubes"
Date: 1911-1968Reference: WF/F/048Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Alphabetical "BD Purchase Record" cards: "tins" - "tubes"
Date: 1912-1961Reference: WF/F/047Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Digital Images
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Geissler tubes.
- Digital Images
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Geissler tubes.