Stories
- Article
Migraine, creativity and me
Novelist Lydia Ruffles explores how migraine has made her mind stretch, shrink, widen and change, and how it’s influenced her art.
- Article
A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
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Acid and the sexual psychonauts
How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.
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Performance art, frozen in time
For over a year, live performance art with an audience present has been largely impossible. But still images continue to allow artists in this sphere to inspire audiences at home.
Catalogue
- Books
New forms of art and contagious mental illness / Carl Julius Salomonsen ; responses by Johannes Bjerg, S. Danneskiold-Samsøe, Harald Giersing, Leo Swane and Medical Dr. Oluf Thomsen ; edited & translated by Andrew Hodgson.
Salomonsen, Carl Julius, 1847-1924Date: [2023]- Archives and manuscripts
Miscellaneous documents, forms, cuttings
Date: 1908-1948Reference: SA/BMA/C.279Part of: British Medical Association- Archives and manuscripts
Constitutional and property documents
Date: c.1904-1912Reference: SA/NPT/C/1/3Part of: National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, successor and associated bodies- Archives and manuscripts
'Non-medical German forms' (in fact includes blank Hospital Register and other medical forms)
Date: 1916-1918Reference: GC/85/C/5Part of: Knapp, Surgeon-Captain Montague Henry- Archives and manuscripts
William Cooper & Nephews Ltd: various documents and forms
Date: 1919-1922Reference: WF/C/E/04/133Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd