Stories
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Thalidomide survivors in the 21st century
As thalidomide survivors enter their 60s, they look back on their lives and the legacy of the thalidomide catastrophe.
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Our Covid complicity
Athena Stevens thought she had a cold that she tried to ignore, but it turned out to be Covid-19. Here she reflects on how we have all put ourselves and others at risk with the choices we’ve made during this pandemic.
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A treatise of the reason of muscular motion, or, The efficient causes of the contraction of a muscle : wherein most of the phaenomena about muscular motion are explained / by Richard Boulton.
Boulton, Richard, 1676 or 1677-Date: 1697- Books
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Myotomia reformata, or, A new administration of all the muscles of humane bodies : wherein the true uses of the muscles are explained, the errors of former anatomists concerning them confuted, and several muscles not hitherto taken notice of described : to which are subjoin'd a graphical description of the bones, and other anatomical observations : illustrated with figures after the life / by William Cowper, Surgeon.
Cowper, William, 1666-1709Date: 1694- Books
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Myotomia; or The anatomical administration of all the muscles of an humane body : as they arise in dissection. As also an analitical table, reducing each muscle to its use and part. Reviv'd with additions, by William Molins Mr. in Chyrurgery. And publish'd for the general good of all practitioners in the said art. Whereunto is added Sir Charles Scarborough's Syllabus musculorum.
Molins, WilliamDate: 1680- Books
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De ratione motus musculorum.
Croone, William, 1633-1684Date: 1664- Books
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Claudii Galeni Pergameni De motu musculorum libri duo Nicolao Leoniceno interprete.
GalenDate: [An. Christi. 1522]