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Mask, ritual and fertility
Today many of us learn about fertility, conception and pregnancy online. But that wasn’t always the way. Discover how masks and rituals played an important educational role.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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Exhibition: Primitive Medicine.
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Exhibition: Primitive Medicine.
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Miscellanies: literary, philosophical and moral. Vol.I. Containing, I. Observations on the Literature of the Primitive Christian Writers. II. Reflections suggested by the Character of Pamphilus of Caesarea. III. Hints respecting the State and Education of the People. IV. Thoughts on the Origin of Human Knowledge, and on the Antiquity of the World.
Christie, Thomas, 1761-1796.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Digital Images
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Wellcome museum, primitive medicine: primitive knowledge
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Wellcome museum, primitive medicine: anatomy, 1946