Stories
- Article
The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
- Article
Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
- In pictures
Pepys and the plague
Through its long history, London has survived some enormous epidemics. During the 1665 Great Plague of London, the city burned, shops closed, the streets emptied and bodies piled up. Read Samuel Pepys’s account of how the city pulled through.
![The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected in fifty-eight years of practice, or, An account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Designed for the use of all private families ... / [Thomas Dover].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0011367/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected in fifty-eight years of practice, or, An account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Designed for the use of all private families ... / [Thomas Dover].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0011365/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
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![The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected in fifty-eight years of practice, or, An account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Designed for the use of all private families ... / [Thomas Dover].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0011361/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
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Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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Bundle of letters and accounts from William Manley, agent of the Retreat in London, for collecting subscriptions and patients' accounts
Date: 1830 - 1838Reference: RET/3/1/2/2Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
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Specimens of statistical reports; exhibiting the progress of political society, from the pastoral state, to that of luxury and refinement. Intended to Furnish Examples, of the Proper Mode of Drawing up Accounts, Either of Parochial, or of Other Districts, and of collecting Facts, in order to Ascertain, the Principles of Statistical Philosophy. and the Sources of National Improvement. By Sir John Sinclair, Bart.
Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835.Date: 1793- Books
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An Act for appointing and enabling commissioners to examine, take, and state the publick accounts of the kingdom; and to report what balances are in the hands of accountants, which may be applied to the publick service; and what defects there are in the present mode of receiving, collecting, issuing, and accounting for publick money; and in what more expeditious and effectual, and less expensive manner, the said services can in future be regulated and carried on for the benefit of the publick.
Great Britain.Date: 1780]- Books
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A short account of the Gentoo mode of collecting the revenues, on the coast of Choromandel.
Dalrymple, Alexander, 1737-1808.Date: 1783- Books
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The out-Port collector and comptroller's guide, or a complete view of the method of collecting the duties on coals, culm and cinders, and every transaction from the ship's arrival in port, to the time of her delivery. With the Manner of passing the several Accounts, and other Business at the Board, Receiver's, and Comptroller-General's Offices. As Also Titles and Forms of Cockets, Transires, Entry-Papers, Bonds, Warrants, Duplicates, Certificates and Returns, Petitions, Memorials, Reports, Protests, &c. With the respective Books, Weekly, Monthly, and Quarterly Accounts, directed to be made Use of in the Port of London, &c. Kalendar, Lists, or Notices for Payment of the Duties, and the Time limited for saving the Discount. With other Essential Matters relative to the Importation and Exportation. To which is added, Tables at 8 s. and 5 s. per Chalder, for casting the Duties; with Variety of Computations of the several Duties. The Quantities of Coals, Culm and Cinders delivered in the Port of London for several Years past. Likewise the Amount of the Receipt of the several Duties, Application thereof, and neat Money paid into the Exchequer from the 5th of January 1762, to the 5th of January 1763. Also a List of the Names of the Sorts of Coals imported from the respective Collieries. Likewise a general abstract of the acts of parliament now in force. Being of particular Use to all Masters, &c. using the Coal Trade. By William Hunter, Of the Long-Room, Custom-House, London.
Hunter, William, of the Custom House, London.Date: [1764]