Stories
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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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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A new-years-gift for Doctor Witty, or, The dissector anatomized : which is a reply to the discourse intituled, An answer to all that Doctor Tonstall has writ, or shall hereafter write, against Scarbrough spaw.
Tonstall, George, 1616 or 1617-1682Date: 1672- Books
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An essay on the nature and properties of water. Shewing its prodigious Use; And proving it to be an universal medicine, Both for preventing and curing The Diseases to which the Human Body is subject. By Frederick Hoffman, M.D. Physician to his present Majesty the King of Prussia.
Hoffmann, Friedrich, 1660-1742.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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A preliminary introduction to the act of sea-bathing; wherein is shewn its nature, power, and importance; With Some Necessary Hints For The Attention of Visiters, At The Watering Places, Previous to, And During A Course of Bathing By John Anderson, M.D., F.A.S., ... Physician to, And A Director of, The General Sea-Bathing Infirmary, At Margate.
Anderson, John, approximately 1730-1804.Date: 1795- Books
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A practical essay on fevers. Containing remarks on the hot and cool methods of their cure. Wherein The First is Rejected, and the Last Recommended. To which is annex'd, a dissertation on the Bath-Waters. By William Oliver, M. D. Fellow of the Royal Society, and Member of the College of Physicians, London. Dubiam Salutem qui dat afflictis negat. Seneca Traged.
Oliver, William, 1659-1716.Date: 1704- Books
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Practical essays upon continual and intermitting fevers, dropsies, diseases of the liver, and the use of Bath waters; the epilepsy, the colic, dysenteric fluxes; and the operation of calomel. With an appendix, and some observations upon the use of a Decoction of the inner bark of the common el m in cutaneous disorders. The second edition. By Daniel Lysons, M. D. Physician to the General-Hospital at Bath, and late Fellow of All-Soul's-College, Oxford.
Lysons, Daniel, 1727-1800.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]