Stories
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The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
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Race, religion and the Black Madonna
Mystery and controversy surround the dark-skinned religious icon who represents the Virgin Mary throughout the Catholic world.
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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
Catalogue
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Nature and society in historical context / edited by Mikuláš Teich, Robinson College, Cambridge, Roy Porter, The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, and Bo Gustafsson, The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (SCASSS), Uppsala.
Date: 1997- Books
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Galen's method of physick: or, his great master-peece : being the very marrow and quintessence of all his writings. Wherein he exceeds not only himself, but also all others, on such a subject, being not only sufficent thorowly to acquaint any judicious man with all the principles of physick or medicine, but also it is absolutely necessary for directing all practitioners in all their physicall applications and cures. Whereto is annexed a succinct and plain commentary for explaining the difficulties thereof, / by its translatour, Peter English, st. of physick.
GalenDate: 1656- Books
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Galen's art of physick ... : translated into English, and largely commented on : together with convenient medicines for all particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their conditions, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent.
GalenDate: 1652- Books
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Klaudiou Galenou Pergamenou ton sozomenon tina. = Claudii Galeni Pergameni Opuscula varia : A viro clarissimo, D. Theodoro Goulstono, Medicinæ Doctore, e celeberrimo medicorum Londinensium (dum vixit) Collegio, Græca recensita, mendisque (quibus ...) quàm plurimis repurgata, & in linguam Latinam clarius puriisque quàm ... traducta. Quorum Titulos ... proxima indicabit. Accessere ab eodaem variæ lectiones, et annotationes criticæ.
GalenDate: MDCXL [1640]- Books
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Hippocrates contractus : in quo magni Hippocratis, medicorum principis, opera omnia in brevem epitomen summa diligentia redacta habentur. Studio & opera Thomæ Burnet, M.D. medici regii, & colegii regii medicorum Edinburgensium socii.
HippocratesDate: 1686