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What the wind can bring

In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.

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Would you like to buy a unicorn?

The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.

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The chymist’s trade card

An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.

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The solidarity of sickness

Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.

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  • Cabinet-making: design for a glass-fronted bookcase. Etching by J. Verchère after himself.
  • Cabinet-making: designs for a bookcase. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: designs for a bookcase. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: design for a bookcase. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • The god Jupiter flanked by two scholars with winged heads and glasses. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • Radcliffe Camera, Oxford: interior of the library showing study areas. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck, 1813, after F. Mackenzie.
  • Methodus medendi Francisci Vallesii Covarrubiani, Philippi Secundi Hisp. Regis, Med. primi. In quatuor libros divisa. Quorum I. Continet victum aegrotantium. II. Rationem curandi per indicationes simplices. III. Per compositas, & cum aliquid eorum, quae indicare possunt nos latet. IV. Occasiones curandi, & abstinendi à curationibus.
  • Methodus medendi Francisci Vallesii Covarrubiani, Philippi Secundi Hisp. Regis, Med. primi. In quatuor libros divisa. Quorum I. Continet victum aegrotantium. II. Rationem curandi per indicationes simplices. III. Per compositas, & cum aliquid eorum, quae indicare possunt nos latet. IV. Occasiones curandi, & abstinendi à curationibus.
  • Methodus medendi Francisci Vallesii Covarrubiani, Philippi Secundi Hisp. Regis, Med. primi. In quatuor libros divisa. Quorum I. Continet victum aegrotantium. II. Rationem curandi per indicationes simplices. III. Per compositas, & cum aliquid eorum, quae indicare possunt nos latet. IV. Occasiones curandi, & abstinendi à curationibus.
  • Methodus medendi Francisci Vallesii Covarrubiani, Philippi Secundi Hisp. Regis, Med. primi. In quatuor libros divisa. Quorum I. Continet victum aegrotantium. II. Rationem curandi per indicationes simplices. III. Per compositas, & cum aliquid eorum, quae indicare possunt nos latet. IV. Occasiones curandi, & abstinendi à curationibus.
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