Wealthier consumptive patients had long been directed to salubrious locations such as seaside resorts or spa towns to escape ...
1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; image 15.3 x 10.3 cm ...
M0016897: Portrait of Carlo Forlanini (1847-1918) / M0016898: Carlo Forlanini administering an artificial pneumothorax Date: May 1958 Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/152/12 ...
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Handbook of the Historical Medical Museum / organised by Henry S. Wellcome.Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.
Credit: On a model sanatorium for consumptives / by Sir Lauder Brunton. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original ...
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Galen on anatomical procedures : de Anatomicis administrationibus / translation of the surviving books with introduction and notes by Charles Singer.
Communicating with hand signs has a long history. Researcher Jude Seal examines the evidence for signing in Medieval Europe ...
In the five centuries since Europeans were introduced to tobacco, smoking has generated considerable controversy. This gallery tracks shifting views on smoking and health, from life-saving stimulant ...
How do you avoid catching the plague? Smoke constantly. Carry a sponge soaked in vinegar. Hang oranges studded with cloves around your house. This was the best medical advice available circa 1665, as ...
In 1950, an American journalist popularised the term ‘brainwashing’, arguing that a new amalgam of technology, medicine and ideology was allowing an onslaught on people’s minds. In this abridged ...
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