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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Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
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A probationary essay on the dressing of wounds, as simplified and improved in modern surgery : submitted, by authority of the President and his Council, to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, when candidate for admission into their body, in conformity to their regulations respecting the admission of ordinary fellows / by James Miller.
Miller, James, 1812-1864.Date: 1840- Books
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Des diverses méthodes de traitement des plaies / par le Dr Dubrueil.
Dubrueil, Alphonse.Date: 1869- Books
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Preisfrage welche geschnittene oder gehauene Wunden sollen durch die Vereinigung und welche sollen durch die Eiterung geheilt werden? / beantwortet von Carl Haberlein.
Haberlein, Carl.Date: 1787- Books
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Discourses on the nature and cure of wounds / by John Bell, surgeon.
Bell, John, 1763-1820.Date: 1812- Books
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The treatment of wounds, ulcers, and abcesses.
Cheyne, William Watson, Sir, 1852-1932.Date: 1895