Wealthier consumptive patients had long been directed to salubrious locations such as seaside resorts or spa towns to escape ...

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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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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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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 ...

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 ...

Africanus Horton Road runs through the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. My dad studied medicine here before graduating at the tender age of 21 (he was something of a child prodigy). He then moved to ...

show credit information for image 'Phallic object, large plaster female figure.' Alfred Charles Kinsey once said that a nymphomaniac is “someone who has more sex than you do”, and Kinsey was a man who ...