Stories
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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Cloves to mull, mask and numb
Sweet, pungent, warm, woody: cloves smell and taste like Christmas. But there’s much more to this spice than that.
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Remote diagnosis from wee to the Web
Medical practice might have moved on from when patients posted flasks of their urine for doctors to taste, but telehealth today keeps up the tradition of remote diagnosis – to our possible detriment.
Catalogue
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Crossroads of cuisine : the Eurasian heartland, the silk roads and food / by Paul D. Buell, E.N. Anderson, Montserrat de Pablo Moya, Moldir Oskenbay.
Buell, Paul D.Date: [2020]- Books
The starry messenger and the polar star : scientific relations between Italy and Sweden from 1500 to 1800 catalogue of an exhibition held at the Naturhistoriska riksmuseet - Stockholm / Marco Beretta.
Beretta, Marco.Date: [1995]- Archives and manuscripts
Fernandus, N. Herbal
Date: c. 1500-1525Reference: MS.270/1Part of: Feradus, Nicholaus (& others)- Books
Feast & fast : the art of food in Europe, 1500 - 1800 / edited by Victoria Avery and Melissa Calaresu.
Date: 2019- Books
An introduction to the social history of medicine : Europe since 1500 / Keir Waddington.
Waddington, Keir, 1970-Date: 2011