Stories
- Article
Printing the body
The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.
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Why the world needs collectors
Those who collect play an important role as “facilitators of curiosity”, says Anna Faherty.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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Demanding a diagnosis for invisible pain
After dozens of hospital visits and handfuls of painkillers, a plethora of scans and tests bring diagnosis closer for Jaipreet Virdi.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Naval Miscellany, 16th-19th centuries
Date: c.1596-1846Reference: MS.7097- Archives and manuscripts
Epidemic Diseases, France, 16th-19th centuries
Date: 1507-1899Reference: MS.7123- Archives and manuscripts
Typescript `Familiar letters', edited letters of the 16th-19th centuries
Date: 19th-20th CenturyReference: PP/HEA/F.5Part of: Head, Sir Henry- Books
Social and economic factors in the translation of medical texts in Spain (16th-19th centuries) / J.M. López Piñero.
López Piñero, José MaríaDate: 1981- Archives and manuscripts
Condition of British ships and fate of prizes after the battle of Trafalgar
Date: Early 19th centuryReference: MS.7097/11Part of: Naval Miscellany, 16th-19th centuries