Stories
- In pictures
Moles’ feet, dried frogs and other folk medicines
Early-20th-century folklorist Edward Lovett made it his mission to discover the nation’s beliefs and superstitions, collecting amulets from cottage cupboards up and down the country.
- In pictures
How Mills & Boon made medicine romantic
‘Doctor-nurse’ romances are a hugely popular trope. Agnes Arnold-Forster explores their history and surprisingly nuanced depictions of womanhood, hospitals and the welfare state.
- Article
Mapping the body
These intricate anatomical drawings show how Ayurveda practitioners have explored the human body and how it works.
- Article
Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Gould and Pyle: Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1900 (Popular Edition)
Date: 1900-1952Reference: PP/FPW/B.25/1Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Books
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Popular pathology : Pancoast on the curability of consumption : medicated inhalation.
Pancoast, S. (Seth), 1823-1889.Date: 1855- Archives and manuscripts
Lowenfeld, M.F. (1955) "The renaissance of voluntary enterprise in medicine". Fellowship for Freedom in Medicine, Bulletin No. 29. 16-19.
Date: 1955Reference: PP/LOW/D/29Part of: Margaret Lowenfeld- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Essay "Soviet Medicine and Blood Transfusion"
Date: Mid 20th CenturyReference: HALDANE/2/1/3/91Part of: Haldane Papers- Books
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Cholera : how to avoid and treat it. Popular and practical notes / by Henry Blanc.
Blanc, H. (Henry Jules), Sir, 1831-1911.Date: 1873