Stories
- Article
Electrical epilepsy and the EEG Test
The EEG (electroencephalograph) literally electrified the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. But for Aparna Nair the dreaded EEG tests of her adolescence were a painful ordeal.
- Article
The meanings of hurt
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
- Article
Pain and the power of touch
As a new physiotherapist, Fiona Murphy quickly learned that her patients’ pain was unpredictable and very personal. But using the right words became the key to helping them.
- Article
Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
A compleat discourse of wounds, both in general and particular : whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures : as also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown.
Browne, John, 1642-approximately 1700Date: 1678- Books
- Online
Casus medico-chirurgicus: or, a most memorable case of a noble-man, deceased : Wherein is shewed, His Lordship's wound, the various diseases survening, how his physicians and surgeons treated him, how treated by the author, after my Lord was given over by all his physicians, with all their opinions and remedies. Moreover, the art of curing the most dangerous of wounds, by the first intention: with the description of the remedies. Written and published by His Majesties command. The second edition. By Gideon Harvey, M.D. physician in ordinary to His Majesty.
Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?Date: 1685- Books
- Online
A late discourse made in a solemn assembly of nobles and learned men at Montpellier in France / by Sir Kenelm Digby, kt. &c. ; touching the cure of wounds by the powder of sympathy ; with instructions how to make the said powder, whereby many other secrets of nature are unfolded ; rendered faithfully out of French into English by R. White.
Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665Date: 1664- Books
- Online
A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body : with other precepts of the same arte, / practised and written by that famous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in phisicke & chirurgery: and translated into English by Iohn Read, chirurgion. Whereunto is added the exact cure of the caruncle, neuer before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Iohannes Ardern. And also the description of the emplaister called dia chalciteos, with his vse and vertues. With an apt table for the better finding of the perticular matters, contayned in this present worke.
Arcaeus, Franciscus, 1493-1573?Date: 1588- Books
- Online
A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body : with other precepts of the same arte, practised and written by that famous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in phisicke & chirurgery: and translated into English by Iohn Read, chirurgion. Whereunto is added the exact cure of the caruncle, neuer before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Iohannes Ardern. And also the description of the emplaister called dia chalciteos, with his vse and vertues. With an apt table for the better finding of the perticular matters, contayned in this present worke.
Arcaeus, Franciscus, 1493-1573?Date: 1588