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World Service,01 Sep 1997,28 mins

Sutra Medieval Hospital

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Why waste could hold clues as to the day to day practice of a hospital 800 years ago. Findings at the Sutra hospital in Scotland has challenged medical thinking. Also in the programme, how advances in scanning have brought about a boom in research into the brain and the comet Chiron. Presenter: Graham Easton.

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