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The ‘epileptic’ in art and science

From scarred outsiders in literature to the cold voyeurism of medical films and photography, people who experience seizures and epilepsy are rarely shown in a compassionate light in popular culture.

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Sniffing glue and Scientology in the DrugScope archive

Academics on hallucinogenics, kids sniffing glue, and Scientologists recruiting drug users keen to kick the habit. Delve into Wellcome’s recently acquired DrugScope archive.

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Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz

The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.

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Children in burns prevention campaigns

Whose responsibility is it to prevent accidental burns and scalds in the home? Shane Ewen’s research shows that it’s everyone’s concern.

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  • A bearded man, two women and a child playing tug of war with the skeletal figure of death watched by a multi-cultural crowd; a drawing by Monica Fernandez Rodriguez, winner of the 4th prize in a graphics project by the Groupe SIDA Genève. Colour lithograph.
  • Graphic illustrations of abortion and the diseases of menstruation / Consisting of twelve plates from drawings engraved on stone, and coloured by Mr. J. Perry, and two copperplates from the Philosophical transactions, coloured by the same artist. The whole representing forty-five specimens of aborted ova and adventitious productions of the uterus, with preliminary observations, explanations of the figures, and remarks, anatomical physiological. By A. B. Granville.
  • Foundling Hospital: above, the achievement of arms, below, Captain Coram and several children, carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Engraving by T. Cook, 1809, after W. Hogarth, 1739.
  • Foundling Hospital: above, the achievement of arms, below, Captain Coram and several children, carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Engraving by T. Cook, 1809, after W. Hogarth, 1739.
  • Wigs classified into five different orders in a parody of the orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1761.
  • Foundling Hospital: Captain Coram and several children, the latter carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Steel engraving by H. Setchell after W. Hogarth.
  • Results of the use of Professor H. Vincent's antistreptococcic serum for septicaemia. Drawing after H. Vincent, 1934.
  • A man, head and shoulders, designated as Lucas van Leyden. Pen and ink drawing after Albrecht Dürer.
  • Astronomy: a meteor in the night sky over London. Mezzotint by M.C. Wyatt, 1850.
  • Franco-Prussian War: two nurses treating a wounded German soldier on the battlefield. Wood engraving by W. Hollidge after Princess Louise.
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