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Medicine Now... then

A look back at highlights from Medicine Now, an exhibition from 2007 where artists and audiences explored the connections between contemporary medicine, life and art.

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Mistakes and perfect medicine

This week our anonymous GP reflects on how a mistake made in a busy, stressful environment could have had serious consequences.

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Drugs in Victorian Britain

Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?

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A history of twins in science

For thousands of years, twins have been a source of fascination in mythology, religion and the arts. Since the 19th century, they have also been the subject of scientific study and experimentation.

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  • Crystals of benzimidazole. Benzimidazole is used as a fungicide in agriculture and to treat worms in human and veterinary medicine.
  • A devil (in human guise) deceiving and tricking an itinerant medicine vendor who proclaims to cure all ailments. Line engraving by S. Nicholls.
  • A monkey, dressed in human clothing and holding up a medicinal remedy: representing quacks or itinerant medicine vendors. Lithograph by W. Nichol after J. Watteau.
  • Systematized anatomy, or Human organography : in synoptical tables, with numerous plates. For the use of universities, faculties and schools of medicine and surgery, academies of painting, sculpture, and the Royal Colleges / By J. Sarlandière ; translated from the French by W.C. Roberts.
  • Systematized anatomy, or Human organography : in synoptical tables, with numerous plates. For the use of universities, faculties and schools of medicine and surgery, academies of painting, sculpture, and the Royal Colleges / By J. Sarlandière ; translated from the French by W.C. Roberts.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
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