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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions

Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?

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Finding out where my lithium comes from

The origins of the lithium Laura Grace Simpkins swallows daily are unclear. If we don’t know the provenance of our pills, how can we make informed decisions about them?

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Drugs in Victorian Britain

Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?

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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria

A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.

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  • St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: view showing St Pancras church, and the Wells in the background. Engraving by J. Roberts after J.B.C. Chatelain.
  • Men resting their camels and smoking by Jacob's Well at Shechem, Palestine. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe after D. Roberts, 1839.
  • Landscape with group of figures with camels at the site of the well of Jacob, Shechem. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1842.
  • Travellers at the wells of Moses, or Eyun Musa, on the eastern side of the Gulf of Suez. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • New physiognomy, or, Signs of character as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in "the human face divine" / by Samuel R. Wells...with more than one thousand illustrations.
  • Sadler's Wells and other places of resort beside the New River: two workmen digging a trench for water-pipes in the foreground. Etching by J. Swaine after himself, 1795.
  • The visit of Queen Elizabeth I to Lord Hunsdon (for his marriage at Blackfriars in 1600?). Engraving by G. Vertue after R. Peake, 1742.
  • Buildings and alumni of St Thomas's Hospital, London. Colour lithograph by Beynon & Company.
  • Baroness Burdett-Coutts' garden party at Holly Lodge, Highgate, for members of the International Medical Congress, 1881. Oil painting by Archibald Preston Tilt and/or Alfred Preston Tilt and/or Arthur Preston Tilt, 1881-1882.
  • Baroness Burdett-Coutts' garden party at Holly Lodge, Highgate, for members of the International Medical Congress, 1881. Oil painting by Archibald Preston Tilt and/or Alfred Preston Tilt and/or Arthur Preston Tilt, 1881-1882.
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