Stories
- Article
The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
- In pictures
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.
- Article
Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
- Article
Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Unsigned paper arguing for lower duties on medicinal plants imported from the East to Great Britain
Date: Late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.7226/1Part of: Medicinal Plants: miscellany- Audio
The history of legal medicine in Britain and Europe.
Date: 9-11 April, 1987- Books
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The evolution of Greater Britain's antiseptic house & town sewage-drainage systems of the twentieth century and after - for all time : with descriptions of the inherent defects of the 19th century systems and how to overcome those defects at great saving of expense : in an address to the President of the Local Government Board, pleading for a reform of the prevailing methods with explanatory, illustrative and critical appendices, copious drawings and diagrams, and full hydraulic, pneumatic and thermo-dynamical tables, corrected to the present date / by Isaac Shone.
Shone, Isaac.Date: 1914- Books
- Online
A history of botany in the United Kingdom from the earliest times to the end of the 19th century / by J. Reynolds Green.
Date: 1914- Books
- Online
Venus attiring the graces. Addressed to -
Date: [1777]