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Charged bodies

Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century.

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The chymist’s trade card

An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.

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Interpreting the Ayurvedic Man

A British Sign Language video is the latest interpretation of an unique 18th-century Nepali painting about Ayurvedic medicine.

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Doctors and the English seaside

Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.

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  • The Dentist, ivory carving. 18th Century
  • Commercial chemical laboratory of the mid 18th Century.
  • The Dentist, ivory on wood carving. 18th Century
  • Hairstyles through history. 11, 18th Century, clansman and redcoat.
  • Hairstyles through history. 11, 18th Century, clansman and redcoat.
  • Hairstyles through history. 11, 18th Century, clansman and redcoat.
  • Hairstyles through history. 11, 18th Century, clansman and redcoat.
  • Legpieces, 18th century
  • Dental forceps, 18th century
  • Dental forceps, 18th century
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Dangerous Liaisons

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Sexual Diseases and Medicine in Early Modern South Asia

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Mary Toft, Mother of Rabbits

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Part of Library Insights

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