A pictorial history of the therapeutic use of poo.
This 15-image gallery explores some of the people, treatments and diseases relating to faecal transplants through history.
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Clostridium difficile is a major cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea.
David Goulding, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute/Wellcome Images
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Ge Hong, a fourth-century Chinese physician. Woodcut by Gan Bozong.
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Anatomy of the large intestine. Chinese woodcut, 1537.
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Seventeenth-century Italian anatomist Girolamo Fabrizio (aka Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente). Lithograph by P R Vignéron.
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Christian Franz Paullini. Line engraving.
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A man with cholera experimenting with remedies. By Robert Cruikshank, 1832.
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‘The ascending douche’. An engraving from ‘The water cure illustrated’, 1869.
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Colonic tissue from a patient with perforation of the colon caused by amoebiasis infection.
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A diarrhoea-causing pathogen infecting the colon.
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