Stories
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When wounds replace words
For the many thousands of refugees waiting in Greece, the process to establish the truth of their tragic personal histories is often extremely upsetting. But a group of medics and legal workers is working together to make the system more humane.
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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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Blood money: Taking periods out of poverty
Periods are not a wound that needs to heal, nor is the blood a sign of injury. So why are we still so repelled by them?
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Duelling doctors
An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.
Catalogue
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Hippopathology: a systematic treatise on the disorders and lameness of the horse; with their modern and most approved methods of cure; embracing the doctrines of the English and French veterinary schools.... / By William Percivall.
Percivall, William, 1792-1854.Date: 1834-1852- Books
The after treatment of wounds and injuries / by R.C. Elmslie.
Elmslie, R. C. (Reginald Cheyne), 1878-Date: 1919- Books
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The New Zealand War of 1863-64-65 : special report on wounds and injuries received in battle / by Inspector-General Mouat.
Mouat, James, 1815-1899.Date: [between 1860 and 1869?]- Books
Wound treatment / by Louis A. Merillat, E. Wallis Hoare, and others.
Merillat, Louis A. (Louis Adolph), 1868-Date: 1915- Books
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On the treatment of wounds and fractures : clinical lectures / by Sampson Gamgee.
Gamgee, Joseph Sampson.Date: 1883