Stories
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Found items
Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.
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A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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Balsami, opobalsami, carpobalsami, & xylobalsami, cum suo cortice explanatio. Interprete & auctore Matthia de L'Obel, Medico insulano, Gallo- Belga. Ad clarissimum & honoratissimum dominum D. Georgium Careyum, baronem de Hunsdon, nobilissimi ordinis periscelidis equitem auratum, sacri cubiculi præfectum. Regiæ Maiestati à sanctioribus consilijs, & vectis insulæ administratorem.
L'Obel, Matthias de, 1538-1616Date: 1598- Books
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Adam in Eden, or, Natures paradise : the history of plants, fruits, herbs and flowers with their several names ... the places where they grow, their descriptions and kinds, their times of flourishing and decreasing as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations and particular physical vertues together with necessary observations on the seasons of planting and gathering of our English simples with directions how to preserve them in their compositions or otherwise : ... there is annexed a Latin and English table of the several names of simples, with another more particular table of the diseases and their cures ... / by William Coles.
Coles, William, 1626-1662Date: 1657- Books
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Dr. Trigg's secrets, arcana's & panacea's : approved by his long admired experience and practice, whereby he wrought such wonderfull cures. With his most experienced secrets particularly appropriated to womens distempers. Now after his death to fulfill his request published as a legacy to his patients. By Eugenius Philanthropos.
Trigg, William, practicioner of physickDate: 1665- Books
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Botanologia, the British physician, or, The nature and vertues of English plants : exactly describing such plants as grow naturally in our land with their several names, Greek, Latine or English, places where they grow ... each plant appropriated to the several diseases they cure and directions for their medicinal uses ... by means whereof people may gather their own physick ... with two exact tables, the one of the English and Latine names of the plants, the other of the diseases and names of each plant appropriated to their diseases with their cures / by Robert Turner, botanolog. stud.
Turner, Robert, active 1654-1665Date: 1687- Books
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Stirpium aduersaria noua, perfacilis vestigatio : luculentaqne [sic] accessio ad priscorum, pr[a]esertim Dioscoridis & recentiorum, materiam medicam. Quibus prope diem accedet altera pars. Qua coniectaneorum de plantis appendix, de succis medicatis et metallicis sectio, antiquæ & nouatæ medicin[a]e lectiorum remedioru[m] thesaurus opulentissimus, de succedaneis libellus continentur. Authoribus Petro Pena. & Mathia de Lobel, medicis.
Pena, Pierre, active 1535-1605Date: 1570 [i.e. 1571 (1 Jan.)]