Stories
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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A treatise on the gonorrhoea: to which is added, a critical enquiry into the different methods of administering mercury. Intended as a Supplement to a former Work, intitled, A new and easy Method of Cure, by the Introduction of Mercury into the System through the Orifices of the absorbent Vessels on the Inside of the Mouth. By Peter Clare, Surgeon.
Clare, Peter, 1738-1786.Date: [1781]- Books
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An essay on the venereal gleet; in which the different species of this disorder are distinguished, and their causes assigned; together with the symptoms, and method of cure peculiar to each of them: To which are added Suitable Prescriptions adapted to the several Intentions of Cure. By Samuel Chapman, Surgeon.
Chapman, Samuel, 1718-1790.Date: [1751]- Books
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An essay on the theory and cure of the venereal gonorrhoea, and its consequent diseases. By John Andree, surgeon to the Magdalen Hospital, and the Finsbury Dispensary, and late teacher of anatomy.
Andree, John, approximately 1740-approximately 1820.Date: M,DCC,LXXXI. [1781]- Books
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A practical treatise on the gonorrhoea; recommending the use of injection, as the most speedy and efficacious method of cure : to which are added, letters From Several Gentlemen of the Faculty, approving the author's new mode of administering mercury. By P. Clare, Surgeon.
Clare, Peter, 1738-1786.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Dissertatio medica, de gonorrhoea virulenta: quam, annuente summo numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, gulielmi Robertson, S.S.T.P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti; nec non Amplissimi senatus academici consensu, Et nobilissimae Facultatis Medicae decreto; pro gradu doctoris, summisque in medicina honoribus et privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Gulielmus Moncrieffe, Scoto-Britannus. Prid. 1d. Septemb, hora locoque folitis.
Moncrieffe, William.Date: M,DCC,LXVIII. [1768]