Stories
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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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A head apart from the body
We look to the future of science via science fiction to explore how a head may live apart from its body.
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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
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Dr Richard Price kneeling on a large crown (with a demon on his back) to look through a peep-hole at a group of ruffians ransacking Marie Antoinette's bedroom; representing a speech by Price which allegedly advocated the French Revolution. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1790 (?).
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811Date: 12 December [1790?]Reference: 12178i- Books
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Album : [Offert par les Laboratoires Fournier Frères.].
Académie nationale de médecine (France)Date: [1913?]- Archives and manuscripts
John Timlin's drawings
Date: Mid 20th century - late 20th centuryReference: PP/ADA/F/4Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)- Books
Œuvres nouvelles / Gavarni.
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.Date: [between 1850 and 1859?]- Pictures
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Seven clergymen watch as a physician bathes the feet of a sick, aristocratic lady; suggesting the uncertainty of the clergy faced with the ousting of the aristocracy in France. Coloured etching by S.J., 1791.
S. J.Date: 1791Reference: 15873i