Stories
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
- Interview
Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz
The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.
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How slums make people sick
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
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Mapping the body
These intricate anatomical drawings show how Ayurveda practitioners have explored the human body and how it works.
Catalogue
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The Count of Gabalis: or, Conferences about secret sciences : Rendered out of French into English. With an advice to the reader. / By A.L. A.M.
Villars, abbé de (Nicolas-Pierre-Henri), 1635-1673Date: M. DC. LXXX. [1680]- Books
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Loimologia : A consolatory advice, and some brief observations concerning the present pest. By Geo. Thomson, Dr of physick.
Thomson, George, active 17th century.Date: 1665- Books
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The spectator, with illustrative notes. To which are prefixed the lives of the authors: comprehending Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Thomas Parnell, John Hughes, Eustace Budgel, Lawrence Eusden, Thomas Tickell, Alexander Pope. With critical remarks on their respective writings. A new edition. By Robert Bisset, L.L.D. Author Of The Life Of Burke, &c. &c.
Date: 1799- Books
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Oraison funebre de tres haute & tres puissante Princesse Marie, reine d'Angleterre, d'ecosse, de France, & d'Irlande : Prononcée le jour de ses funerailles par Monseigneur l'Archevêque de Canterbury. Traduire en François par L.D.
Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715Date: 1695- Books
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Two letters: the first, being a relation of a sad accident that fell out at Erpingham neer Norwich : July 2. shewing how a fire-ball fell from the heavens into the parish church there, broke down part of the steeple and several places in the church-wall, kill'd one man and wounded diverse, &c. The second, being a relation of a strange sight in the heavens, seen by three justices of the peace their sons. Dated, Hungerford in Wiltshire, June 19. 1665.
Date: 1665