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Jim, the horse of death

Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.

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The power of unicorns

Discover the unlikely connection between pharmaceuticals and unicorns.

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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth

Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.

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How to rehabilitate the concrete jungle

A huge concrete housing estate from the 1960s, now seen as an ecological mistake, is being drastically redeveloped, compounding the environmental errors. Owen Hatherley posits a more creative solution.

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  • Horses used in serum production.
  • Horses and riders showing four different leaps in a steeplechase. Lithograph.
  • Asvacikitsa: Four horses
  • Examining horses: wedge test
  • Examining horses: wedge test
  • Horses' hooves, seen from below: four figures showing both perfect and contracted feet, demonstrating Mr. Coleman's 'artificial frog' for the preservation of horses' hooves. Etching by J. Barlow, 1802.
  • Horses and bison incised on cave wall at La Grotte des Combarelles, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac (Dordogne).
  • Laurence's condition powder for horses.
  • Worms in horses: trichoneme nodules.
  • Worms in horses: trichoneme nodules.
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