Stories
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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 ancient doctors who refused payment
The NHS might only be 70 years old, but the idea of free healthcare goes back to Ancient Greece, when devout doctors provided their services without charge.
- Interview
Refugee health on a pound a day
Two refugees living a hand-to-mouth existence in the UK explain how trauma has affected their health, and how a little kindness is bringing them hope.
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Bleeding healthy
For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.
Catalogue
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Medicine and pharmacy : an informal history ancient Greece and Rome.
Date: 1956- Books
Medicine, magic and religion in Ancient Greece / Spyros G. Marketos, Constantin Papaeconomou.
Marketos, Spyros Gerasimou, 1931-Date: 1992- Books
Medicine as science and art in Ancient Greece / Theano D. Kontopoulou, Spyros G. Marketos.
Kontopoulou, Theano D.Date: [1970-]- Books
Male homosexuality in classical Greece / Plinio Prioreschi, Ernst J. Brehm.
Prioreschi, PlinioDate: 1994- Archives and manuscripts
'Researches on blackwater fever in Greece', Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, vol 29, no 4, Oct 1935
Date: October 1935Reference: PP/FAK/C/3/1Part of: Foy, Henry (1900-1991), and Kondi, Athena (d.1994), Haematologists and nutrition researchers