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The ‘epileptic’ in art and science
| Aparna NairTracy Satchwill
From scarred outsiders in literature to the cold voyeurism of medical films and photography, people who experience seizures and epilepsy are rarely shown in a compassionate light in popular culture.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
| Douglas SmallBenjamin Gilbert
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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The chymist’s trade card
| Julia Nurse
An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.