Stories
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History of condoms from animal to rubber
Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
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Plant portraits
The beautiful and mysterious illustrations in medieval herbals convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.
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The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
Catalogue
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Marine toxins and venomous and poisonous marine animals / Findlay E. Russell.
Russell, Findlay E.Date: [1971]- Books
Bibliography of venomous and poisonous marine animals and their toxins / by Findlay E. Russell [and others].
Date: 1984- Books
A Hellenistic treatise on poisonous animals (the "Theriaca" of Nicander of Colophon) : a contribution to the history of toxicology / Peter K. Knoefel and Madeline C. Covi.
Knoefel, Peter K. (Peter Klerner), 1906-1999.Date: [1991], ©1991- Books
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Venoms, venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics / by A. Calmette ; translated by Ernest E. Austen.
Calmette, A. (Albert), 1863-1933.Date: 1908- Ephemera
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Animals (cruel poisons) act, 1962 / C.W. Hume.
Hume, Charles Westley, 1886-Date: 1963