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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Printing the body
The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.
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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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The meanings of hurt
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
Catalogue
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Art in Madness - Early Patient Artwork
Date: 1843-c.1867Reference: DGH1/7/3/1Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
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Catalogue of Illustrations
Date: c.1880Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/135Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Books
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A seasonable check to the fury of an unfledg'd minister of the Gospel. In a letter to the Reverend Mr. T- - - - - - - A very young Glóstershire Clergyman. Written by Mr. J- - - - - - - - A very young Wiltshire Layman. Occasion'd by the former's falsly charging the latter with Atheism. In which are interspers'd some Observations on Atheism and Superstition, together with a Hint or two to the Professors of Christianity in general.
J- - - - - - - -, Mr.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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Promptuarium praxeos medicae. Seu, Methodus medendi, praescriptis celeberrimorum medicorum Londinensium concinnata / A Joanne Pechey.
Pechey, John, 1655-1716Date: MDCC. [1700]- Books
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A sure guide, or, The best and nearest way to physick and chyrurgery : that is to say, the arts of healing by medicine and manual operation : being an anatomical description of the whole body of man and its parts : with their respective diseases demonstrated from the fabrick and vse of the said parts : in six books ... at the end of these six books, are added twenty four tables, cut in brass, containing one hundred eighty four figures, with an explanation of them : all which are referred to in above a thousand places in the books for the help of yong artists / written in Latine by Johannes Riolanus, Junior ... ; Englished by Nicholas Culpeper, Gent. and W.R., Doctor of the Liberal Arts and of physick.
Riolan, Jean, 1580-1657Date: 1671