Stories
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When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
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Lectures on Chemistry
Date: late 17th - early 19th centuryReference: MS.MSL.104- Books
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Shakspere's family as patients.
Griffiths, L. M. (Lemuel Matthews)Date: [1891]- Books
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Chirologia: or the naturall language of the hand. Composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof. Whereunto is added Chironomia: or, the art of manuall rhetoricke. Consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto's, exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life, and civill conversation / ...By J. B. Gent. Philochirosophus.
J. B. (John Bulwer), 1606-1656.Date: 1644- Books
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Doctors out of practice / by J. Cordy Jeaffreson.
Jeaffreson, John Cordy, 1831-1901.Date: [1884]- Archives and manuscripts
Long Safari: lymphoma syndrome diary - letter to E. H. Williams family
Date: Oct-Dec 1961Reference: WTI/DPB/D/1/4Part of: Burkitt, Denis Parsons (1911-1993)