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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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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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Curious observations in that difficult part of chirurgery, relating to the teeth : shewing how to preserve the teeth and gums from all accidents they are subject to, as 1. An account of their nature, 2. Their alteration, with their proper remedies, 3. Their cause of corruption and putrefaction, 4. Directions for restoring or supplying the defect of them in old or young, 5. Considerations on the tooth ache, looseness of the teeth, the decay of the gums, with their remedies and restoratives, 6. The use of the polican or instrument wherewith, they are drawn on all occasions : lastly, teeth in children, what they are in the original, and how they come to perfection, in what order produced, the means to hasten them, and render them easie in breeding : to which is added, A physical discourse, wherein the reasons for the beating of the pulse, or pulsation of the arteries, together with those of the circulation of the blood are explained, and the opinions of several ancient and modern physicians and phylosophers, as Gallen, Gassendus, Cartesius, Lower, Willis, &c. upon this subject are examined.
Allen, Charles, active 17th centuryDate: 1687- Books
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Galeni Pergameni de pulsuu usu Tho. Linacro Anglo interprete.
GalenDate: [1522?]- Books
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The pulse watch: Vol.II. or, an essay to discover the causes of diseases, and a rational method of curing them by feeling of the pulse. These Essays are added as an appendix. I. An Essay to make a new Sphygmologia, by accommodating the Chinese and European Observations about the Pulse. II. An Inquiry into the Nature, Use, Causes and Differences of the Respirations, and the Prognostications which may be made by them in Diseases. III. A Letter concerning the Rupture in the Lungs, which is the Cause of the Asthma in Mankind, and of the Broken-Wind in Horses, and of the Crocke in Hawks, with the palliative Cure of those several Diseases, and their Symptoms. By Sir John Floyer, Knight.
Floyer, John, Sir, 1649-1734.Date: MDCCX. [1710]- Books
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Observations on the intermitting pulse, As Prognosticating, in Acute Diseases, according to Dr. Solano, a Critical Diarrhoea-Or, as indicating the Use of Purging Remedies. By Daniel Cox, M. D. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Cox, Daniel, -1759.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- 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]