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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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The evolution of war-zone medicine

The need to deal with battlefield injuries has led to inventive designs for extreme situations. Find out how camel-drawn ambulances and flat-pack hospitals have helped casualties survive.

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The art of scientific glassblowing

Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.

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The relationship between science and art

Often seen as opposites, science and art both depend on observation and synthesis.

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  • Asclepiad : a book of original research and observation in the science, art and literature of medicine, preventive and curative / by Benjamin Ward Richardson.
  • Men of mark : a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the senate, the church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc / Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper.
  • Men of mark : a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the senate, the church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc / Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper.
  • Men of mark : a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the senate, the church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc / Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper.
  • Men of mark : a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the senate, the church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc / Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper.
  • Men of mark : a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the senate, the church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc / Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper.
  • Domestic medicine; or, the family physician; being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases. Chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines / [William Buchan].
  • Domestic medicine; or, the family physician; being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases. Chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines / [William Buchan].
  • We, the court of examiners, chosen and appointed by the master, wardens and assistants of the Society of the Art and Mystery of Apothecaries of the City of London in pursuance of a certain Act of Parliament passed in the 55th year of the reign of his majesty King George the third entitled an Act for the better regulating the practice of apothecaries throughout England and Wales, do hereby by virtue of the power & authority invested by the said Act certify that ... has been by us carefully and deliberately examined as to his skills & abilities in the science & practice of medicine ... duly qualified as an apothecary.
  • A course of chymistry. Containing an easie method of preparing those chymical medicines which are used in physick. With curious remarks and useful discourses upon each preparation, for the benefit of such who desire to be instructed in the knowledge of this art / [Nicolas Lémery].
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