Stories
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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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The anatomy of human bodies epitomized : wherein all the parts of man's body, with their actions and uses, are succinctly describ'd, according to the newest doctrine of the most accurate and learned modern anatomists / by Tho. Gibson.
Gibson, Thomas, 1647-1722Date: 1688- Books
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The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized : wherein all the parts of man's body with their actions and uses are succinctly described according to the most accurate and learned modern anatomists / by Tho. Gibson.
Gibson, Thomas, 1647-1722Date: 1697- Books
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The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized : Wherein all the parts of man's body with their actions and uses are succinctly described, according to the most accurate and learned modern anatomists / by Tho. Gibson.
Gibson, Thomas, 1647-1722Date: 1697- Books
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The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized : wherein all the parts of man's body, with their actions and uses, are suscinctly described, according to the newest doctrine of the most accurate and learned modern anatomists / by Tho. Gibson.
Gibson, Thomas, 1647-1722Date: 1694- Books
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The anatomy of humane bodies : with figures drawn after the life by some of the best masters in Europe and curiously engraven in one hundred and fourteen copper plates : illustrated with large explications containing many new anatomical discoveries and chirurgical observations : to which is added an introduction explaining the animal œconomy : with a copious index / by William Cowper.
Cowper, William, 1666-1709Date: 1698