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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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Bringing Braille back to the modern world

For anyone who thinks Braille is so last century, read on. New tech is helping dust Braille down and bring it to today’s visually impaired people.

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  • Two black silhouette heads touch but are divided by a red question mark; from afar, the image resembles a black suit on a red hanger; representing uncertainty about AIDS. Colour silk screen print after J.-C. Blais, 1993.
  • A skeleton, seen from the front, with labels giving the latin names of the bones. Photograph after a woodcut, 1501.
  • Ambrosii Leonis Nolani diuini philosophi Nouum opus quaestionum, seu problematum, ut pulcherrimorum, ita utilissimorum, tum aliis plerisque in rebus cognoscendis, tum maxime in philosophia et medicina scientia / [Ambrogio Leone].
  • Mallevs maleficarvm, maleficas et earvm hæresim frameā conterens, ex variis avctoribvs compilatvs. Et in quatuor tomos iusté distributus, qvorvm dvo priores vanas dæmonvm versutias, præstigiosas eorum delusiones, superstitiosas strigimagarum cæremonias, horrendos etiam cum illis congressus; exactam denique tam pestiferæ sectæ disquisitionem, & punitionem complectuntur. Tertius praxim exorcistarum ad dæmonum, & strigimagarum maleficia de Christi fidelibus pellenda; quartus verò artem doctrinalem, benedictionalem, & exorcismalem continent ... / [Heinrich Institoris].
  • Mount Fuji seen through the waves at Manazato no hama, in the Izu Penisula, south of the mountain. Colour woodcut by Hiroshige, 1852.
  • Mount Fuji seen from Kinegawa, a village on the far east side of Edo. Colour woodcut by Hiroshige, 1852.
  • A view from Shiba Atago-yama: a shrine with a garden. Colour woodcut by Chikanobu.
  • The cherry trees of the Sumida embankment; a ferry conveys passengers from the city on the west bank; two women in the foreground are entertainers/prostitutes; the mountain in the distance is Mount Tsukuba. Colour woodcut by Chikanobu.
  • The recently completed brick buildings of Ginza street, Tokyo. Colour woodcut by Chikanobu.
  • Kinyūsan Asakusa temple. Colour woodcut by Chikanobu.
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