Stories
- Article
Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
- Article
Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- Article
A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
Catalogue
- Books
History of laparotomy for military trauma according to the original Arabic manuscripts / M. al-Fallouji.
al-Fallouji, M.Date: 1995- Books
Bibliography of mediaeval Arabic and Jewish medicine and allied sciences / by R.Y. Ebied ; with a foreword by A.M. Honeymean.
Ebied, R. Y.Date: 1971
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
M0007968: Jewish translator receiving an Arabic medical volume, from Singer: A Short History of Medicine (1928)
Date: 01 July 1941Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/68/79Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Videos
Greek and Arabic medicine (Dr. Vivian Nutton, Wihm).
Date: 1985- Books
Unpublished Arabic and Persian books on Greco-Arab medicine written in India from 634/1236 to end of 19th century / Institute of History of Medicine and Medical Research.
Institute of History of Medicine and Medical Research (New Delhi, India)Date: [1969?]
