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A quick guide to drugs, the brain and brain chemistry
Discover some of the major chemicals that govern activity in our brains, how they work, and why certain drugs have the effects they do.
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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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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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A general system of chemistry, theoretical and practical. Digested And Arranged, With A Particular View To Its Application To The Arts. Taken chiefly from the German of M. Wiegleb. By C. R. Hopson, M.D.
Wiegleb, Johann Christian, 1732-1800.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A discourse made before the Royal Society, Decemb. 10, 1674 : concerning the nature, causes, and power of mixture / by Nehemiah Grew.
Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712Date: 1675- Books
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Elements of chemistry: being the annual lectures of Herman Boerhaave, M.D. Formerly Professor of Chemistry and Botany, And at present, Professor of Physick in the University of Leyden. Translated from the original Latin, by Timothy Dallowe, M. D. ...
Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- Books
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A course of chemistry : containing an easie method of preparing those chymical medicins which are used in physick : with curious remarks and useful discourses upon each preparation, for the benefit of such who desire to be instructed in the knowledge of this art / by Nicholas Lemery, M.D.
Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715Date: 1686- Books
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Essays of the strange subtilty, determinate nature, great efficacy [brace] of effluviums : To which are annext new experiments to make fire and flame ponderable: together with a discovery of the perviousness of glass / by ... Robert Boyle.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691Date: 1673