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How to stay together while keeping apart

Vivek Murthy explores how we can keep physically distant while staying emotionally connected.

  • Interview

Inside the minds of Teeth’s two curators, James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing

James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing talk visceral reactions, their interactions and object extractions.

  • Article

Chemotherapy-day drawings

Undergoing treatment for bowel cancer, artist Clare Smith produced around 70 abstract drawings while sitting in the chemotherapy chair. She reflects on how creativity can bring respite in a crisis.

  • Article

It’s getting mighty crowded

Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.

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  • In Paris, at the theatre of M. Comte, in 1819, a female dwarf was exhibited ... : Though the surgeons removed to Lincoln's Inn Fields at the commencement of this century ... Hunter's Museum, formerly in Leicester Square, was purchased from his widow by the government for 15,000£ ...
  • A figure standing in the gardens of Surgeon's Square, Edinburgh, Scotland. Line engraving by T. Barber, 1830, after T.H. Shepherd.
  • A figure standing in the gardens of Surgeon's Square, Edinburgh, Scotland. Line engraving by T. Barber, 1830, after T.H. Shepherd.
  • Period of loan : current journals - 14 days, all other material - 1 month... / Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons ... Library.
  • With the librarian's compliments / The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Wellcome Library.
  • St. Enoch's Church, Surgeons Hall and square, Glasgow, Scotland. Line engraving.
  • The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Engraving.
  • William Adams, "Bumptious Billy". Photograph.
  • William Adams, "Bumptious Billy". Photograph by J.E. Mayall.
  • A complete practice of midwifery : consisting of upwards of forty cases or observations in that valuable art, selected from many others, in the course of a very extensive practice. And interspersed with many necessary cautions and useful instructions, proper to be observed in the most dangerous and critical exigencies, as well when the delivery is difficult in its own nature, as when it becomes so by the rashness or ignorance of unexperienc'd pretenders. Recommended to all female practitioners in an art so important to the lives and well-being of the sex / By Sarah Stone, of Piccadilly.
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