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Bloodletting at the barber-surgeon’s

Scratchy throat? Burning fever? Broken heart? It all comes down to the same issue: too much blood.

  • Article

When monarchs healed the sick

Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.

  • Interview

Inside the minds of Teeth’s two curators, James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing

James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing talk visceral reactions, their interactions and object extractions.

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Would you like to buy a unicorn?

The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.

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  • Hall of the Barber-Surgeons' Company, Monkwell St., London.
  • Barber-Surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Street, London: the facade. Process print.
  • Hall of the Barber-Surgeons' Company, Monkwell St., London: entrance.
  • Achievement of arms of the London Barber Surgeons Company. Coloured pencil drawing.
  • Arms of the London Barber Surgeons' Company. Engraving attributed to W. Vaughan, 1677.
  • Barber-Surgeon's Hall, Monkwell Street. Engraving published 29 Sept. 1800. From Memoranda of Barber-Surgeons. 2 MS. No. 2678.
  • The grant of arms to the Barber Surgeons' Company, 1569. Colour photolithograph by W. Griggs, 1885.
  • Barge-flag: achievement of arms of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons of London. Gouache on cloth.
  • Barge-flag: achievement of arms of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons of London. Gouache on cloth.
  • M0007321: Female barber-surgeons attending to a patient
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