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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 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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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Exercitationis medicae specimen inaugurale de lienteria : Quod favente coelesti numine, ex authoritate magnifici rectoris, D. Johannis Voet ... Nec non amplissimi senatûs academici consensu, & almae facultatis medicae decreto, pro gradu doctoratus summisque in medicina honoribus & privilegiis ritè ac legitimè consequendis, publicè exhibet David van Hoogstraten, Rotteraedamus; ad diem 13 Octobris, loco horisque solitis.
Hoogstraten, David van, 1658-1724Date: M DC LXXXI. [1681]- Books
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Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de diarrhoea: Quam annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, Gulielmi Robertson, S.S.T.P. Academiæ Edinburgenæ Præfecti: nec non amplissimi senatus academici consensu, et nobilissimae facultatis medicæ decreto, Pro Gradu Doctoratus, summisque in medicina honoribus et Privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Edmundus Butler, hibernus. Ad diem 18 Julii hora locoque solitis.
Butler, Edmund, active 1763.Date: M,DCC,LXIII. [1763]- Books
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Dissertatio medica, inauguralis, de diarrhoea. Quam, Annuente Summo Numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, D. Gulielmi Robertson, S.S. T.P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti; Necnon Amplissimi Senatus Academici consensu, Et nobilissimae Facultatis Medicae decreto; pro gradu doctoris, Summisque In Medicina Honoribus AC Privilegiis Rite ET Legitime Consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Campbell Betham, Scotus. Soc. Reg. Med. Edin. Soc. Ad diem 25. Junii, hora locoque solitis.
Betham, Campbell.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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Some observations of the power and efficacy of a medicine against loosenesses, bloody fluxes, &c. By the late Dr. William Cockburn, Of the College of Physicians, and Fellow of the Royal Society; late of St. James's-Street. Also cases where the said medicine was administred by Mr. John Dove. With an introduction treating of the various powerful properties, an uncommon efficacy of it in many other disorders. Also rules for taking it. By Henry Boësnier de la Touche. Of Little Chelsea.
Boësnier de la Touche, Henry.Date: 1757- Books
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Dispitatio medica inauguralis de affectione coeliaca : Quam praeside Deo opt. max. ex authoritate magnifici d. rectoris, D. Johannis Voet ... Nec non amplissimi senatûs academici consensu, & almae facultatis medicae decreto, pro gradu doctoratus, summisque in medicina honoribus & privilegiis ritè ac legitimè consequendis, publico examini subjicit Cornelius Honscoop, Batavus. Ad diem 4 Novemb., loco horisque solitis.
Honscoop, Cornelius, active 1681.Date: M DC LXXXI. [1681]