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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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 blight of the ballooning blood vessels
In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.
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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.
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The wound-man.
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Wound man, Pseudo-Galen, Anathomia; WMS 290
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A wound man. Inkjet print by Euan Stewart, 2010.
Stewart, Euan G.Date: 2010Reference: 996776i- 3-D Objects
A surgeon attending to a wound in a man's leg. Plaster sculpture.
Reference: 4513i- Pictures
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A woman treating a man's head-wound. Oil painting after J. Nixon.
Nixon, John, -1818.Reference: 44985i