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The rise and fall of a medical mesmerist

Uncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.

  • Book extract

My important, ridiculous nose

The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.

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What the nose doesn’t know

Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.

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Inside the Cold War mind

Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.

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  • A nun of the order of St. Vincent de Paul dressing a wounded soldier's leg. Wash drawing by E. de Feu, 1832.
  • Claude Pouteau. Line engraving by A. de St Aubin.
  • A can of the insecticide Le Nicotiné de St. Julien attacks insects with a sword and kills them. Colour lithograph, 19--.
  • Simeon Worlock. Line engraving by A. de St Aubin after D. Denon.
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Line engraving by A. de St Aubin after J. A. Houdon.
  • Jean Baptiste Bory de St Vincent. Stipple engraving by A. Tardieu after himself, 1826.
  • Benjamin Franklin. Line engraving by A. de St Aubin after C. N. Cochin, junior, 1777.
  • Sir Isaac Newton. Line engraving by A. de St Aubin after himself after J. Roettiers, 1739.
  • Edouard François Marie Bosquillon. Line engraving by A. de St Aubin, 1798, after J. B. Isabey.
  • Pierre-Louis-Marie Maloët. Line engraving by A. de St Aubin, 1786, after C. N. Cochin.
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