Stories
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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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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
![The Queen's royal cookery ... With the art of preserving and candying of fruits and flowers; and the making of conserves, syrups, jellies, and cordial waters ... cosmetick or beautifying waters, etc / [T. Hall].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0027003/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![The Queen's royal cookery ... With the art of preserving and candying of fruits and flowers; and the making of conserves, syrups, jellies, and cordial waters ... cosmetick or beautifying waters, etc / [T. Hall].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0027004/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Memoire sur l'usage œconomique du digesteur de Papin / donnée au public par la Société des Belles-Lettres, Sciences et Arts de Clermont-Ferrand. Par M. ***, avoc. anc. sécret. de la même Société et auteur des Ouvertures de paix universelle [i.e. F.G. Quériau].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0043523/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
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The art of cookery refin'd and augmented : containing an abstract of some rare and rich unpublished receipts of cookery / collected from the practise of that incomparable master of these arts, Mr. Jos. Cooper, chiefe cook to the late king ; with severall other practises by the author ; with an addition of preserves, conserves, &c., offering an infallible delight to all judicious readers.
Cooper, Joseph, chiefe cook to the late kingDate: 1654- Books
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Mellificium chirurgiæ, or, The marrow of chirurgery much enlarged : to which is now added Anatomy, illustrated with twelve brass cuts, and also The marrow of physick, both in the newest way / by James Cooke.
Cooke, James, 1614-1694Date: 1676- Books
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A nevv booke of cookerie : VVherein is set forth a most perfect direction to furnish an extraordinary, or ordinary feast, either in Summer or Winter. Also a bill of fare for fifh-dayes, fasting-dayes, ember-weekes, or Lent. And likewise the most commendable fashion of dressing, or sowcing, either flesh, fish, or fowle: for making of iellies, and other mide-dishes for seruice, to beautifie either noble-mans or gentlemans table. Together with the newest fashion of cutting vp any fowle. All set forth according to the now, new, English and French fashion: By Iohn Murrell.
Murrell, John, active 17th centuryDate: 1617- Books
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A perfect school of instructions for the officers of the mouth : shewing the whole art of a master of the household [sic], a master carver, a master butler, a master confectioner, a master cook, a pastryman ... : adorned with pictures curiously ingraven, displaying the whole arts / by Giles Rose, one of the master cooks in His Majesties kitchen.
Rose, GilesDate: 1682- Books
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Mellificium chirurgiæ, or, The marrow of chirurgery : an anatomical treatise, institutions of physick, with Hippocrates's aphorisms largely commented upon, the marrow of physick shewing the causes, signs and cures of most diseases incident to humane bodies; choice experienced receits for the cure of several distempers ... illustrated in its several parts with twelve brass cuts / by James Cooke.
Cooke, James, 1614-1694Date: 1685