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The blight of the ballooning blood vessels

In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.

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Sockets and stumps

Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.

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Lustmord and the three perspectives of murder

Artist Jenny Holzer's work shines a light on the three perspectives of sexual murder: the victim, the perpetrator and the observer.

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Living with invisible illness

What happens when the signs of your illness are invisible to the rest of the world? Hannah Turner describes the daily struggles of living with invisible illness.

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  • Thigh muscle fibrils
  • Thigh of a man with long standing ulceration
  • Thigh bones (femora) from Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Thigh bone (femur) from a female Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Thigh bone (femur) from a male Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Thigh bone (femur) from a female Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Thigh bone (femur) from a female Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Thigh of a patient with an intermuscular synovial cyst of the knee
  • SEM thigh muscle fibrils
  • SEM thigh muscle fibrils
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