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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines

From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.

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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth

Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.

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Mapping the body

These intricate anatomical drawings show how Ayurveda practitioners have explored the human body and how it works.

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A symbol of a lost homeland

The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.

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  • Page from Kitab Tibb al-Gina wa-l-Muna an Arabic medical text concerning general medicine
  • Incipit clarificatoriu[m] ioha[n]nis de tornamira super nono alma[n]soris cu[m] textu ipsius Rasis.
  • Incipit clarificatoriu[m] ioha[n]nis de tornamira super nono alma[n]soris cu[m] textu ipsius Rasis.
  • Incipit clarificatoriu[m] ioha[n]nis de tornamira super nono alma[n]soris cu[m] textu ipsius Rasis.
  • Incipit clarificatoriu[m] ioha[n]nis de tornamira super nono alma[n]soris cu[m] textu ipsius Rasis.
  • Incipit clarificatoriu[m] ioha[n]nis de tornamira super nono alma[n]soris cu[m] textu ipsius Rasis.
  • Incipit clarificatoriu[m] ioha[n]nis de tornamira super nono alma[n]soris cu[m] textu ipsius Rasis.
  • Paraphrasis, in nonum librum Rhazae medici Arabis clariss. ad Regem Almansorem, de singularu[m] corporis partium affectuum curatione, / autore Andrea Wesalio Bruxellensi Medicin[a]e candidato.
  • Liber theoricae necnon practicae Alsaharavii ... qui vulgo Acararius dicitur: iam summa diligentia et cura depromptus in lucem [a Sigismundo Grimmo] / [Abū al-Qāim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāw-i].
  • Arabic scalping instruments and anatomical drawing.
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