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A medieval guide to practical magic

With few sources of effective help available when treating an injured patient, the medieval physician could instead stage a healing ceremony using a practical how-to guide he carried with him.

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The extraction of the excruciating bladder stones

Among those vying to find alternatives to major surgery for bladder stones, young doctor Jean Civiale stood out, painstakingly honing a method that was to become the norm.

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Inside the mind of George Vasey, co-curator of Misbehaving Bodies

Discover how curator George Vasey honoured the approaches of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, who mischievously subvert clichés around illness and death.

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In celebration of LGBTQ+ comedy

At school, homophobic jokes made Ella Braidwood feel uncomfortable and ashamed. Fast-forward to today’s inclusive comedy scene, and her very different feelings of hope and happiness.

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  • Clinical lectures on diseases of the nervous system delivered at the infirmary of la Sal Petriere. Vol. 3 / by J.M. Charcot ; translated by Thomas Savill.
  • A Chinese man offering a small lizard on a chopstick to an English guest who is reluctant to eat it. Coloured lithograph by Smith after himself.
  • An Englishman is startled when he sees his reflection in the mirror and finds his Chinese barber has given him a queue. Coloured lithograph by Smith, 1858.
  • A Chinese man and woman having their first Western clothes fitted. Coloured lithograph by Smith, 1858.
  • The people of China weighed down by the hierarchy of emperor, mandarins and priests. Coloured lithograph by Smith, 1858.
  • The church of St. Bartholomew the Great: interior view showing the east and north ambulatory. Etching by John Thomas Smith, 1810.
  • Opera medica. Quibus additi fuere tractatus sequentes / I. Gualt. Harris De morbis acutis infantium. II. Gul. Cole Novae hypotheseos ad explicanda febrium intermittentium symptomat. & typos excogitatae hypotyposis &c. III. Ejusd. De secretione animali. IV. Mart. Lister. De morbis chronicis. V. Ejusdem De variolis. VI. Thomae Sydenham Processus integri in morbis fere omnibus curandis, cum tract. de phthisi nunquam antehac edito.
  • Opera medica. Quibus additi fuere tractatus sequentes / I. Gualt. Harris De morbis acutis infantium. II. Gul. Cole Novae hypotheseos ad explicanda febrium intermittentium symptomat. & typos excogitatae hypotyposis &c. III. Ejusd. De secretione animali. IV. Mart. Lister. De morbis chronicis. V. Ejusdem De variolis. VI. Thomae Sydenham Processus integri in morbis fere omnibus curandis, cum tract. de phthisi nunquam antehac edito.
  • An alchemist using bellows at a furnace in his laboratory. Etching by T. Major, 1750, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist using bellows at a furnace in his laboratory. Etching by T. Major, 1750, after D. Teniers the younger.
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