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 origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
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Diagnosed bipolar, prescribed lithium
In the first part of a series looking into lithium, Laura Grace Simpkins recounts the beginning of her troubled relationship with this mysterious drug.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'Mercury Poisoning from dental mercury amalgam teeth fillings and its consequences from conception to crematorium'
Date: 2001Reference: PP/KIL/4Part of: Papers of Angela Kilmartin (b.1941) Relating to Mercury Dental Fillings- Books
Mercury poisoning from dental amalgam : a hazard to human brain / Patrick Störtebecker.
Störtebecker, Tore PatrickDate: [1985]- Books
Mercury poisoning in a 19th century naval vessel / A.G. McDonald.
McDonald, A. G.Date: 1988- Digital Images
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Stomach and intestine from a case of poisoning by perchloride of mercury
Godart, Thomas- Archives and manuscripts
'Patients Against Mercury Amalgams and other dental practices'
Date: c.1990-2000Reference: PP/KIL/3Part of: Papers of Angela Kilmartin (b.1941) Relating to Mercury Dental Fillings