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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Two treatises : the one medical, Of the gout and its nature more narrowly search'd into than hitherto, together with a new way of discharging the same / by Herman Busschof ; the other partly chirurgical, partly medical containing Some observations and practices relating both to some extraordinary cases of women in travel, and to some other uncommon cases of diseases in both sexes by Henry Van Roonhuysen ... ; Englished out of Dutch by a careful hand.
Date: 1676- Books
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The praise of the gout, or, The gouts apologie : A paradox, both pleasant and profitable. Written first in the Latine tongue, by that famous and noble gentleman Bilibaldus Pirckheimerus councellor vnto two emperours, Maximilian the first, and Charles the fift: and now Englished by William Est, Master of Arts.
Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470-1530Date: 1617- Books
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Arthritology, or, A discourse of the gout / written by John Groenevelt.
Groeneveld, Joannes, 1647-1710?Date: 1691- Books
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The ouerthrovv of the gout written in Latin verse, by Doctor Christopher Balista.
Ballista, ChristopherDate: 1577- Books
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A problem concerning the gout : in a letter to Sir John Gordon ... / by G.P., with a reply and censure thereupon.
Philips, George, 1599?-1696Date: 1691