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Making sunstroke insanity

Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.

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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians

Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.

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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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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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  • Abelia x grandiflora R.Br. Caprifoliaceae. Distribution (A. chinensis R.Br. × A. uniflora R.Br.). Mexico, Himalayas to Eastern Asia. Ornamental flowering shrub. The name celebrates the short life of Dr Clarke Abel FRS (1789-1826), one of the first European botanists to collect in China, which he did when attached as physician to the Canton embassy in 1816-17. It has no medicinal uses but is a popular ornamental shrub in the honeysuckle family because it attracts butterflies and has a long flowering period. From June to October it produces a profusion of small, fragrant, pink-flushed, white flowers on long, arching branches. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Memoirs on the ganglia and nerves of the uterus / Robert Lee.
  • The house of Charles White on King Street, Manchester. Coloured lithograph by A. Aglio after J. Ralston, 1823.
  • St Marylebone Infirmary, London: Basil Hood and J.R. Lunn. Photograph, c. 1940.
  • Mwera, Zanzibar, Tanzania: an African man stands in a river using a ladle to dip for mosquito larvae. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • The back, buttocks and arms of a man suffering from psoriasis. Process print after a photograph, ca. 1905.
  • A standing man, full-length back view, with elephantiasis of the left leg and probably scrotum, Fiji. Photograph by F.W. O'Connor, 1920/1921.
  • Diseased, swollen fingertip. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1856.
  • Seasonable suggestions / [Dr. Jayne Company].
  • Seasonable suggestions / [Dr. Jayne Company].
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