Stories
- Article
The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
- Article
Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
- Article
A history of twins in science
For thousands of years, twins have been a source of fascination in mythology, religion and the arts. Since the 19th century, they have also been the subject of scientific study and experimentation.
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Getting the measure of pain
In the 20th century doctors tried to find a way to measure pain. But even when ‘objective’ measures were rejected, an accurate understanding of another’s pain remained frustratingly elusive.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
William Heberden the elder (1710-1801) and William Heberden the younger (1767-1845), physicians
Heberden, William, 1710-1801Date: late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.8832- Pictures
A soldier in 19th-century costume (hussar?) killing a big green fly by spraying it with a gun of Flit insecticide. Colour lithograph, 1930.
Date: [1930]Reference: 589481i- Pictures
Doctor and Mrs Syntax, with other elderly people, taking laughing gas in the house of a tooth-drawer in Paris. Coloured aquatint, 1820.
Combe, William, 1742-1823.Reference: 12086i- Pictures
Doctor Syntax attending a scientific demonstration at the Royal Institution, London. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson after W. Combe.
Combe, William, 1742-1823.Date: [1820 ?]Reference: 12075iPart of: The tour of Doctor Syntax through London, or the pleasures and miseries of the metropolis- Archives and manuscripts
Whewell, William (1794-1866)
Whewell, William, (1794-1866)Date: early 19th century - mid 19th centuryReference: MS.8007/8Part of: Miscellany: British, mainly 19th-20th centuries