Stories
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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.
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Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
Catalogue
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Tusk of the narwhal (Monodon monoceros), or horn of the unicorn.
Reference: 47281i- Books
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The Merry-Andrew: or, British Harlequin. By Capitino Georgio Grimaldo, born in Pudding-lane, but sometime servant to the Great Duke of Tusk-any.
Date: M DC CXX. [1720]- Books
Tuskegee's truths : rethinking the Tuskegee syphilis study / edited by Susan M. Reverby.
Date: [2000], ©2000- Digital Images
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Image of a mammoth carved onto an elephant's tusk
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Microscope image referenced as "Collagen from mammoth tusk"
Martin, A. V.Date: March 1952Reference: KDBP/1/1/0592Part of: King's College London Department of Biophysics