Stories
- Article
Diagnosing the past
Historical texts rarely supply enough detail for a definitive diagnosis, so medical historians need to proceed with caution.
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
Catalogue
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Ways of making and knowing : the material culture of empirical knowledge / edited by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R.W. Meyers, and Harold J. Cook.
Date: [2014]- Digital Images
- Online
Ming Chinese prescription book, first page
- Digital Images
- Online
Exhibition: Primitive Medicine.
- Manuscripts
[Wellcome MS Turkish Ottoman 28].
Date: 1481- Books
Ibn Baklarish's book of simples : medical remedies between three faiths in twelfth-century Spain / edited by Charles Burnett.
Date: 2008