Stories
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
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Confession as therapy in the Middle Ages
The line between confession and counselling has been blurred for centuries.
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Why zombies can’t help coming back
Although it might appear that zombies are a 20th-century phenomenon, created for the horror-movie industry, they’ve actually been around since medieval times. Find out what zombies like to do, and how to get rid of them.
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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Herbal
Musa, AntoniusDate: Mid 13th CenturyReference: MS.573- Archives and manuscripts
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Compendium of learned medical texts (Miscellanea Medica VI)
Date: Late 13th CenturyReference: MS.536- Archives and manuscripts
Adelard of Bath
Adelard of BathDate: Late 13th CenturyReference: MS.4- Archives and manuscripts
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Constantinus Africanus, Viaticum
Constantinus Africanus (1015-1087)Date: Late 13th centuryReference: MS.207- Archives and manuscripts
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Giordano Ruffo, De medicina equorum
Date: Late 13th centuryReference: MS.7756Part of: Ruffo, Giordano (d.c.1256), De medicina equorum