Stories
- Article
Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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Not one yoga, but many yogas
From ancient tradition to modern gym class, yoga means many things to many people.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Paxton, Richard (fl. mid 18th century - late 18th century)
Paxton, Richard (fl. mid 18th century - late 18th century)Date: 1799Reference: MS.3820- Archives and manuscripts
Boerhaave, Hermann (1668-1738)
Boerhaave, Hermann, 1668-1738.Date: early 18th century - mid 18th centuryReference: MSS.1279-1285- Books
- Online
The development of narrative practices in medicine c.1960 - c.2000 : the transcript of a witness seminar held by the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, Queen Mary, University of London, on 18th June 2013 / edited by E M Jones and E M Tansey.
Date: 2015- Archives and manuscripts
Personal material
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.6137Part of: Jurin, James (1684-1750), physician and Secretary of the Royal Society- Archives and manuscripts
On chronic diseases
Fordyce, George, 1736-1802Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.2400Part of: Fordyce, George (1736-1802)