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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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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.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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The eye of darshan
The Hindu concept of darshan means “divine revelation”, but it’s also about the multilayered ways in which we see the world around us. Adrian Plau explains how one image in a Panjabi manuscript relates to darshan, and why it’s so striking.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
List of documents relating to Jean Louis Rast-Maupas (1731-1821), silk-processor
Date: 19th century - 20th centuryReference: MS.7449/7Part of: Rast-Maupas Family, France, 18th-19th century- Archives and manuscripts
List of works by Jean Baptiste Antoine Rast-Maupas (1732-1810), physician
Date: 19th century - 20th centuryReference: MS.7449/5Part of: Rast-Maupas Family, France, 18th-19th century- Archives and manuscripts
Turner, John William (1790-1835), surgeon
Date: late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.7780/16-17Part of: Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries- Archives and manuscripts
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English Recipe Book, 18th century
Date: Mid 18th century - late 18th centuryReference: MS.7747- Books
Le premier [second, tiers] volume ... des croniques de France: dangleterre: descosse: despaigne: de Bretaigne: de Gascongne: de Flandres: et lieux circonvoisins. Avecques les grandes croniques des roys de France Loys XI et Charles VIII.
Monstrelet, Enguerrand de, approximately 1390-1453Date: 1512