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 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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![Incipit clarificatoriu[m] ioha[n]nis de tornamira super nono alma[n]soris cu[m] textu ipsius Rasis.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0051956/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
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Physician-authors of Greco-Arab medicine in India.
Date: [1969]- Books
Organized medicine in relation to Arab society / F.S. Haddad.
Haddad, Farid SDate: 1974- Books
Greco-Arab medicine : some observations / Hakim Mohammed Said.
Said, Hakim Mohammad.Date: 1984- Books
Theories and philosophies of medicine : with particular reference to Greco-Arab medicine, Ayurveda, and traditional Chinese medicine / compiled by Department of Philosophy of Medicine and Science, Institute of History of Medicine and Medical Research.
Date: 1973- Books
A survey of drugs : with particular reference to the Arab (unani) medicine and ayurveda / Abdul Wahid and H.H. Siddiqui.
Wahid, Abdul, Hakim.Date: [1961]