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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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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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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A declaration of such greiuous accidents as commonly follow the biting of mad dogges, together with the cure thereof, by Thomas Spackman Doctor of Physick.
Spackman, ThomasDate: 1613- Books
De hydrophobia; seu, De pavore aquae in rabie problema perdifficillimum / auctore Io. Antonio Cappella.
Cappella, Giovanni Antonio, active 1646.Date: 1646- Books
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An essay on the bite of a mad dog, in which the claim to infallibility of the principal preservative remedies against the hydrophobia is examined. By John Berkenhout, M.D.
Berkenhout, John, 1730?-1791.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Tentamen medicum inaugurale, de rabie contagiosa, vulgo Canina. Quam, annuente summo numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, D. Gulielmi Robertson, S.S.T.P. academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti; nec non Amplissimi senatus academici consensu, Et nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto, pro gradu doctoratus, summisque in medicina honoribus ac privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Calebus Hillier Parry, Anglo-Britannus, Societatis Medicae Edinensis Socius, Et Praeses Annuus. Ad diem 24. Junii, hora locoque solitis.
Parry, Caleb Hillier, 1755-1822.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de rabie canina. Quam, annuente summo numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, D. Gulielmi Robertson, S.S.T.P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti; Necnon Amplissimi senatus academici consensu, Et nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto; pro gradu doctoris, summisque in medicina honoribus ac privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Jacobus M'ilwaine, Hibernus. Societ. Chem. Edin. Soc. Extraord. Nec non Soc. Physic. Americ. Sodalis. Ad diem 25. Junii, hora locoque solitis.
McIlwaine, James.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]