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“Martin Bromiley is a modest man with an immodest ambition: to change the way medicine is practised in the UK. He doesn’t command your attention, though you find yourself giving it. Neither is he a doctor, or a health professional of any kind. Bromiley is an airline pilot. He is also a family man, with a terrible story to tell.” Amazing story from Ian Leslie.

“The procedure was simple enough. Blood from malarial patients was directly injected into syphilitic patients.” A great piece from Rebecca Kreston on pyrotherapy asylums.

A boy suffers a mysterious illness that stumps doctors. Then