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This historic document is the first electrocardiogram (ECG), recorded in 1887 by the British physiologist Augustus Desiré Waller. By the 1880s, experiments had already shown that electrical activity played an

This is not something you want to see on an MRI. The patient was a 3 y.o. boy with a suspected upper respiratory tract infection. But why has most of

Think your day's going badly? It could be worse.Pelvic X-ray of a 41-year-old male patient, previously fit and well. But what on EARTH is going on here? Ah. That's what's

Here's a chest X-ray that made the radiologist gasp and reach for the phone. What could this thin grey line possibly be? The patient was a 30 yo male, no

On July 2 1806, the House of Commons debated vaccination. Reading William Wilberforce's speeches on this occasion, it's as if the intervening two centuries never happened. Vaccines bring a false

Just discovered that it's 50 years since British ambulances started routinely carrying Entonox for pain relief. Though it's gone virtually unnoticed, this is a much more significant anniversary than it

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