Stories
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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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Laughing gas and the scientific pursuit of the sublime
Part science lecture. part public spectacle, thanks to chemist Humphry Davy the 19th-century craze for inhaling nitrous oxide rapidly spread from the science laboratory to fashionable salons and homes of the day, and onto the popular stage.
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A history of twins in science
For thousands of years, twins have been a source of fascination in mythology, religion and the arts. Since the 19th century, they have also been the subject of scientific study and experimentation.
Catalogue
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Urinary and renal derangements and calculous disorders : hints on diagnosis and treatment / by Lionel S. Beale.
Beale, Lionel S. (Lionel Smith), 1828-1906.Date: 1885- Books
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Twenty-second annual report of the medical superintendent of the lunatic asylum, for the counties of Salop and Montgomery, and for the borough of Wenlock, 1866 / [Salop and Montgomeryshire Counties Lunatic Asylum].
Salop and Montgomeryshire Counties Lunatic Asylum.Date: 1867- Books
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Twenty-seventh annual report of the medical superintendent of the lunatic asylum, for the counties of Salop and Montgomery, and for the borough of Wenlock, 1871 / [Salop and Montgomeryshire Counties Lunatic Asylum].
Salop and Montgomeryshire Counties Lunatic Asylum.Date: 1872- Pictures
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The British Museum: the entrance hall and staircase. Wood engraving C. D. Laing, 1849, after B. Sly after L. Collman.
Collman, L., active 1843-1869.Date: 1849Reference: 38448i- Books
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On slight ailments : their nature and treatment / by Lionel S. Beale.
Beale, Lionel S. (Lionel Smith), 1828-1906.Date: MDCCCLXXXII [1882]