Stories
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Between sickness and health
In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.
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Louis Wain’s cryptic cats
Once famous for his quirky cat illustrations, today Louis Wain is often portrayed as a ‘psychotic’ artist whose illness can be mapped out through his drawings. Here Bryony Benge-Abbott takes a more rounded view.
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The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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Venus attiring the graces. Addressed to -
Date: [1777]- Pictures
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A servant asking her employer's dentist to fill one of her teeth. Process print after T. Evans, 1929.
Evans, Treyer Meredith, 1889-1958.Date: 1929Reference: 15489i- Pictures
A fashionable doctor visiting a fashionable lady patient. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1869.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1869Reference: 15688i- Pictures
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A fashionable lady asking her doctor what ailments he can invent for her - so that she convince her husband to take her to Cannes. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Prance, 1927.
Prance, Bertram, 1889-Date: 1927Reference: 15478i- Pictures
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A patient asking her doctor his political leanings, he retorts that it varies - depending on who he is treating. Wood engraving after A.T. Smith.
Smith, Albert Talbot, 1877-Reference: 15665i