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War and disfigurement

The fighting methods of World War I brought with them a huge increase in disfiguring facial injury. See how surgeons and sculptors helped injured men face the world again.

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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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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.

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  • Galvanism experiments on human body parts
  • A dog, dressed as a scientist, performing an experiment on a human being; representing vivisection. Reproduction of a drawing after OBC(?).
  • Experimental inquiries, part the second : containing a description of the lymphatic system in the human subject, and in other animals : illustrated with plates. Together with observations on the lymph, and the changes which it undergoes in some diseases / by William Hewson, F.R.S., and teacher of anatomy.
  • Experimental inquiries, part the second : containing a description of the lymphatic system in the human subject, and in other animals : illustrated with plates. Together with observations on the lymph, and the changes which it undergoes in some diseases / by William Hewson, F.R.S., and teacher of anatomy.
  • Java: human skeletons lying in a valley poisoned by volcanic gases, being watched by travellers. Coloured aquatint.
  • After the defeat of the White Army, a new white peril threatens Russia in the form of the typhus louse, against which the Red soldiers fight by washing themselves and their clothes vigorously. Colour lithograph, ca. 1921.
  • The typhus louse shaking hands with Death. Colour lithograph by O. Grin, 1919.
  • The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • The typhus louse shaking hands with Death. Colour lithograph by O. Grin, 1919.
  • The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
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