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Why the world needs collectors

Those who collect play an important role as “facilitators of curiosity”, says Anna Faherty.

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The birth of the public museum

The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.

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Rethinking the placebo effect

The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.

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Charged bodies

Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century.

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  • The anatomy of human bodies. Comprehending the most modern discoveries and curiosities in that art. To which is added a particular treatise of the small-pox and measles. Together with several practical observations and experienced cures. With 139 figures curiously cut in copper, representing the several parts and operations. Written in Latin by Isbrand de Diemerbroeck ... Translated from the last and most correct and full edition of the same / by William Salmon.
  • The anatomy of human bodies. Comprehending the most modern discoveries and curiosities in that art. To which is added a particular treatise of the small-pox and measles. Together with several practical observations and experienced cures. With 139 figures curiously cut in copper, representing the several parts and operations. Written in Latin by Isbrand de Diemerbroeck ... Translated from the last and most correct and full edition of the same / by William Salmon.
  • The anatomy of human bodies. Comprehending the most modern discoveries and curiosities in that art. To which is added a particular treatise of the small-pox and measles. Together with several practical observations and experienced cures. With 139 figures curiously cut in copper, representing the several parts and operations. Written in Latin by Isbrand de Diemerbroeck ... Translated from the last and most correct and full edition of the same / by William Salmon.
  • The anatomy of human bodies. Comprehending the most modern discoveries and curiosities in that art. To which is added a particular treatise of the small-pox and measles. Together with several practical observations and experienced cures. With 139 figures curiously cut in copper, representing the several parts and operations. Written in Latin by Isbrand de Diemerbroeck ... Translated from the last and most correct and full edition of the same / by William Salmon.
  • Wonderful production of nature : the greatest human curiosity! Now in existence, Master Thomas Jones, the Cambrian Porcupine Youth!! ... is now exhibiting, for a short time, at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209 Regent Street.
  • In the museum of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Coloured aquatint after William Hogarth.
  • In the cabinet of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Engraving by B. Baron after W. Hogarth, 1745.
  • In Paris, at the theatre of M. Comte, in 1819, a female dwarf was exhibited ... : Though the surgeons removed to Lincoln's Inn Fields at the commencement of this century ... Hunter's Museum, formerly in Leicester Square, was purchased from his widow by the government for 15,000£ ...
  • Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.
  • Edward Bamfield, a giant, and John Coan, a dwarf. Engraving by J. Roberts, 1771, after B. Rackstraw.
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Zebrafish and Human Behaviour

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