Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
Shakespeare and the four humours
Blood. Phlegm. Black bile. Yellow bile. The theory of the four humours informed many of Shakespeare's best-known characters, including the phlegmatic Falstaff.
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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
Catalogue
- Ephemera
- Online
Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
Scott-Gatty, Alfred, 1847-1918.Date: [1869?]- Ephemera
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Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
Scott-Gatty, Alfred, 1847-1918.Date: 1908- Digital Images
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Song-sheet cover: 'Medicine Jack'.
- Books
Out of many, one : a history of the American College of Sports Medicine / Jack W. Berryman.
Berryman, Jack W.Date: [1995], ©1995- Pictures
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An itinerant medicine vendor known as Medicine Jack carrying his wares in a knapsack on his back. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 21057i