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Indian botanicals and heritage wars

Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.

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A nose through Blythe House

Recently sold and emptied out, Blythe House was once one of the UK’s biggest museum storage facilities. Here, museum worker Laura Humphreys reflects on her relationship with the store’s architecture, objects and aromas.

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Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life

Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.

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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life

The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.

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  • Anaesthetics ancient and modern : an historical sketch of anaesthesia.
  • American armamentarium chirurgicum / George Tiemann & Co.
  • American armamentarium chirurgicum / George Tiemann & Co.
  • Veterinary and canine surgical instruments and equipment / A. Fleming & Co.
  • Veterinary and canine surgical instruments and equipment / A. Fleming & Co.
  • Veterinary and canine surgical instruments and equipment / A. Fleming & Co.
  • The Harding Electrically propelled invalid chair.
  • A healthy horse, representing the healthy effects of free trade. Coloured lithograph by J. West Giles after Sir E. Landseer.
  • Statues of "raving" and "melancholy" madness, each reclining on one half of a broken segmental pediment, formerly crowning the gates at Bethlem [Bedlam] Hospital. Engraving by W. Sharp, 1783, after T. Stothard after C. Cibber, 1680.
  • A Sikh Akalan. Watercolour drawing.
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