Stories
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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.
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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.
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The problem of the punctured heart
During World War II a young American surgeon working in England perfected shrapnel-removal techniques that saved dozens of lives. Discover how one case sealed his reputation as the founder of cardiac surgery.
Catalogue
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Arterial injuries : early diagnosis and treatment / by the Vascular Injuries Sub-Committee of the M.R.C. War Wounds Committee.
Date: 1944- Books
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The treatment in Germany of gunshot injuries of the face and jaws / tr. and abstracted from recent German publications, by W.H. Dolamore.
Date: 1916- Books
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Gunshot injuries; how they are inflicted, their complications and treatment.
La Garde, Louis A. (Louis Anatole), 1849-1920.Date: 1914- Digital Images
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Treatment of wounds and splint for leg fractured by gunshot
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Gunshot wounds and other injuries of nerves / by S. Weir Mitchell, George R. Morehouse, and William W. Keen.
Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914.Date: 1864