Stories
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The ‘epileptic’ in art and science
From scarred outsiders in literature to the cold voyeurism of medical films and photography, people who experience seizures and epilepsy are rarely shown in a compassionate light in popular culture.
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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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The chymist’s trade card
An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.
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Art's treasury of rarities: and curious inventions. In two parts. Art I. Containing the Mystery of Dying Cloth, Silk, Stuffs, Hair, Feathers, Bone, Horn work, Leather, &c. and to prepare and use them. To prepare and colour Skins of Leather, or Gild them with Gold, Silver or Lacquering, &c. To Dye Bristles, Hair, Marble Paper; to recover faded Colours in Cloth or Silk, and to take out Spots or Stains of Tar, Rosin, Grease, Oyl, &c. and preserve them from Moth and Worms. To scower Silver and Gold Lace and Plate. To Cement broken Glass and China, and to make Perfumes, &c. The Art of Drawing, Limning, Painting in Oyl and Japanning, and Tanning Leather, Eching, Graving, Writing, Gilding, Enamelling. To make sundry Colours, prepare Gums and Allom-Water; to thicken Linen, colour Maps and Pictures. Art II. Containing the Generation of Metals, Natura and Artificial, and to Solder, Gild, and to harden and soften them. To Cleanse and Perfume Gloves, Washing and Starching Lawns, Sarsenets, Tiffany, and Lutestrings. With divers other curiosities.
White, John, -1671.Date: M,DCC,LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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An essay, towards a historical treatise, on that most universally famous, as well as useful art of typography, from the first Invention of it at Harlem, by Coster, with Molds or Blocks of Wood.
Bagford, John, 1650-1716.Date: 1707?]- Books
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Prints publishsed by William Byrne, - No. 79 - Titchfield-Street. London.
Byrne, William, 1743-1805.Date: July 1790- Books
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Exhibition extraordinary!! Catalogue of pictures, statues, busts, bronzes, &c. &c. now exhibiting for sale, at the Great Auction-Room, Westminster. To which are annexed some critical observations. First day's sale.
Date: [1795?]- Books
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Exhibition extraordinary! Catalogue of pictures, statues, busts, bronzes, &c. &c. now exhibiting for sale, at the Great Auction-Room, Westminster. To which are annexed some critical observations. Fifth day's sale, without reserve.
Date: [1795?]