Stories
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Remote diagnosis from wee to the Web
Medical practice might have moved on from when patients posted flasks of their urine for doctors to taste, but telehealth today keeps up the tradition of remote diagnosis – to our possible detriment.
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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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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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Our endless quest for eternal youth
From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.
Catalogue
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The Tudor kitchen : what the Tudors ate & drank / Terry Breverton.
Breverton, Terry, 1946-Date: [2015]- Books
Henry VIII : man and monarch / exhibition guest curated by David Starkey ; British Library curator, Andrea Clarke ; catalogue edited by Susan Doran.
Date: 2009- Books
Treasure island : British art from Holbein to Hockney.
Date: 2012- Books
Early British swimming, 55 BC-AD 1719 : with the first swimming treatise in English, 1595 / by Nicholas Orme.
Orme, Nicholas.Date: 1983- 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