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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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How injury changed my brain
Meg Fozzard, who experienced a brain injury in her 20s, writes about the huge impact it's had on her life, and talks to others with similar injuries.
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Bleeding healthy
For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.
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When parenting brings a paradigm shift
There were no indications during her pregnancy that Carol Nahra’s son would have severe, life-threatening disabilities. Here she describes the stages on her journey from shock to love and beyond.
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Two figures with abnormalities, one with wings as arms and feathered legs and the other one with a horned head
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Three figures with abnormalities, One figure has a human body with a ducks head, the second figure has a Lions body with a human head and the third has a human body with webbed feet and hands
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Multiple pregnancy, abnormalities of the foetal head, and contracted pelvis in childbirth. Lithograph after W. F. Victor Bonney.
Bonney, Victor, 1872-1953.Reference: 47241i- Pictures
Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.
Date: [1885?])Reference: 38989i- Digital Images
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Two human figures with abnormalities, one with two sets of arms and legs and the other with two heads