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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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Printing the body
The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.
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The island of unclaimed bodies
In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.
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A body apart from the head
We look back at the importance of the head, from how it’s influenced our language to the bold political statement of having it removed.
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The busy body; or, Successful spy. Being the entertaining history of Mons. Bigand, a man infintely inquisitive and enterprizing, even to rashness; which unhappy faculties, nevertheless, instead of ruining, raised him from the lowest obscurity, to a most splendid fortune. Interspers'd with several humorous stories. The whole containing a great variety of adventures, equally instructive and diverting.
Mouhy, Chevalier de, 1701-1784.Date: [1770?]- Books
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Nature the best physician; or, Every man his own doctor. Containing rules for the preservation of health and long life; from infancy to extreme old age. To which are added a collection of natural, simple and palatable receipts for the recovery of health, to those who are already afflicted with any of the various disorders incident to the human body, not only such as are easy to be purchased by persons of the lowest capacity; but proper for those in higher stations, who loath nauseous and unwholesome foreign drugs. By A Lover of Mankind, who has made the study of the human constitution his principal employment upwards of twenty years[.]
Lover of Mankind.Date: MD.CC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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The Universal Scots almanack, for the year of our Lord M,DCC,LXXXII. Being the second after bissextile, or leap year, is, with the greatest submission, dedicated to the Right Honourable Henry Dundas, Esq; of Melville, Lord Advocate, Dean; and to the other members of the Faculty of Advocates: in testimony of the high esteem and veneration which the publisher has for that learned and respectable body; by their most obedient and most humble servant, John Robertston.
Date: [1782]- Books
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Specimen physico-medicum, de Corpore Humano, & ejus Morbis. Or, an essay Concerning the Knowledge and Cure Of most diseases Afflicting Human Bodies. To which is Annex'd A short Account of Salivation, and the Use of Mercury. With a Copious Index. By P. Paxton, M. D.
Paxton, P. (Peter), -1711.Date: 1711- Books
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A curious research into the element of water; containing many noble and useful experiments on that fluid body. As I. Three different Experiments of reducing Water into Earth. II. Several Experiments of turning Salts into Water; with a Method of discovering their intrinsic Earths, and of what Nature they are. III. A Method of turning Vitriol of Mercury into Water; with a way to extract the genuine Earth of that corrosive Body. IV. An Experiment proving that that there is a latent Fire in Water; with a Method to attract the said Fire from the Water, and to render it visible, &c. &c. The Interspersed with Curious Queries and Remarks. Being the conjunctive trials of Ambrose and John Godfrey, chymists, from their late father's observations.
Godfrey, Ambrose, -1756.Date: [1747]
