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A medieval guide to practical magic

With few sources of effective help available when treating an injured patient, the medieval physician could instead stage a healing ceremony using a practical how-to guide he carried with him.

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The man who remembers everything

Tilney1 can remember his life in minute detail, but can’t control the incessant intrusion of thoughts and images from the past. As cuts to mental health services isolate him more and more, a crisis approaches.

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A history of gestation outside the body

It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.

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Trans masculinity on the record

Curator of the Museum of Transology in Brighton E-J Scott tells the story behind a few of the 250 objects from the collection, and the powerful effect they had on him as he put trans lives on the record.

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  • The Infirmary, Dispensary and Lunatic Asylum, Manchester, England. Line engraving by J. Davies after S. Austin.
  • The Infirmary, Dispensary and Lunatic Asylum, Manchester, England. Line engraving by J. Davies after S. Austin.
  • The Infirmary, Dispensary and Lunatic Asylum, Manchester, England. Line engraving by J. Davies after S. Austin.
  • Infant Orphan Asylum, Snaresbrook, Essex: panoramic view. Etching by J. Davies after A.W. Wray.
  • A basket with a bitch and her puppies resting on straw. Chalk lithograph by J. W. Giles after R. B. Davies.
  • Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut: with State House. Engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1831, after J.A. Davies.
  • S. A. J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts
  • London School of Tropical Medicine (10th Session) group portrait including Sir Patric Manson, M.C. Blair, R.F. de Boissiere, C.W. Daniels, A.H. Davies, J.T. Hancock O. Galgey, and E. Da Cunha, G. Hungerford, Sir Francis Lovell, J. Lunn, G. Lecesne, W.S. Milne, T. Hood, M. Sandeman, D. Steel, Dr. Sambon, G.D. Warren, Charles and Robert the lab assistants
  • Benjamin Franklin. Lithograph by A. Maurin after J. S. Duplessis, 1778.
  • Martyrdom of Paul Miki S.J., Jacob Kisai S.J., John Goto S.J. and P. Petrus Battista in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1596. Engraving, 1667, after A. van Diepenbeeck.
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