The Curator - by
Step this way, sir. Just here you may see
/ a child’s head so full of water
/ that the world’s alarms were quite…
medicine
Dissection of an Infant – Vascular Preparation - by
I would have loved you, wept
/ with your father and your mother
/ over these tiny perfect hands, perfect feet
/
/ preserved skin-free, en-pointe –
/ as…
A Continuity Problem - by
A Continuity Problem
/
/ 1.
/ Machines for fixing
/ machines for fixing machines
/ for fixing machines.
/
/ 2.
/ For a waiting-room,
/ it’s perfect. We don’t even
/ realise we’re there.
/
/ 3.
/ ‘I’d rather…
My Mother’s Body Interrogated By Light - by
This is what happened
/ Someone lifted a grey translucency to the light
/ and held it there
/ seeing the knit fracture in the clavicle
/ the…
Corneal Graft - by
For all the eye specialists I’ve seen – in varying degrees of haziness – over the years,
/ and for the…
To the Eye Surgeon - by
‘my eyes have seen what my hand did’
/ — Robert Lowell
/
/ No matter what we say, we still believe
/ the soul is here,…
Corpus Vile - by
Some museums of antiquities store row on row of
/ unnamed skulls. There is a day of reckoning now
/ a plea to…
James Young Simpson: If It Is Our Mission … - by
‘If it is our mission
/ to alleviate suffering
/ as well as to preserve life
/ there should be no conscientious restraint
/
/ and if God has…
Increasingly sophisticated methods of divination used in the practice of medicine - by
By observing a rooster pecking grain.
/ By the various behaviours of birds.
/ By balancing a stone on a red-hot axe.
/ By the shape…