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Physicians and phantoms

An arrow to the skull

The maggotorium cure for tuberculosis

From slave to surgeon: the heroic journey of Robert M Johnson

'This comedy of knave and dupe'

‘So worthy of the public notice’: the art of Sarah Biffin

New blood for the scalp

The case of the missing false teeth

In the doctor's name

The gland wizard of California

An adventuress of the first water

The brittle man

Medicinal mummy: curse or cure?

The human hawks that prey upon their kind

Tragedy in Victorian Wessex

An extraordinary worm

The human x-ray scientists

From myth to misery: the tragic story of the Pig-Faced Lady

A vortex of suspicion: the 1927 Channel swimming hoax

Walking quietly with a can of snakes

Chemical warfare against the common cold

A grave scandal: the sale of corpses in 1857

Profiting by deceit: a treatment for alcoholism in Edwardian London

'I am the dead body'

A caesarean section in 18th-century Ireland

Arsenic and old faces

Eight years in cocaine hell

The woman who turned to charcoal

'Give the man his finger!'

Plague, peril and reform: John Howard's quarantine journey

Defeating the death microbe

'The knowledge of things': Jane Sharp's art of midwifery

Hooked on a cure: a tale of tapeworm troubles

The teeth stuck out like so many tusks

Nellie Bly in the mad-house

‘Making people well and making people laugh’

The champion malingerer

'Fopperous pisse-maximes': the art of urine-casting

A fortune-teller’s love potion

Secrets of the mummy factory

Blowing smoke: how tobacco companies flattered the medical profession

'Horrible bubbles': the whale bath for rheumatism

Theriac: ancient miracle or modern mirage?

'How the Devil can I answer?': violence at Apothecaries' Hall