Stories
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Book design, dissected
Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.
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Your journey from cell to human
Find out how you became you with these ten highlights from ‘The Making of You’ by embryologist Katharina Vestre.
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Our bodies inside out
A series of exquisite ink and watercolour illustrations reveal the incredible things going on under our skin.
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Chasing down a mystery illness
In an extract from their graphic novel about a deadly, drug-resistant illness, Val McDermid and Kathryn Briggs explore why knowledge isn’t always the same as power.
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[Illustration of a demon being cast out of a man by a priest at an altar].
Date: [between 1600 and 1699?]- Digital Images
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The Yellow Emperor transmits medical books to Lei Gong
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Early illustrated books : a history of the decoration and illustration of books in the 15th and 16th centuries / by Alfred W. Pollard.
Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944.Date: 1893- Pictures
A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
Date: 1852Reference: 18140iPart of: Hygeian illustration- Books
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The anathomy of the inwarde partes of man : lyuyelye set fourthe and dylygently.
Date: [1545?]