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.
- Article
Dementia playlists and musical memory
Listening to the right music can provide both solace and pleasure for someone with dementia, helping them to reconnect with the world around them. Grace Meadows makes the case for more music in dementia care.
- In pictures
Dogs to the rescue
Explore artworks and archive photographs showing how our four-legged friends have been helping humans for hundreds of years.
- Article
What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Volume containing Browne’s manuscript extracts from published works, c.1932-1946, mainly about Christianity and missionaries and medical missions, chiefly in the context of Africa
Date: c.1945Reference: WTI/SGB/J.8Part of: Browne, Stanley George, CMG, OBE, MD, FRCS, FRCP, DTM (1907-1986)
- Ephemera
- Online
An operation in Yezd hospital, Persia / Medical Mission Auxiliary, Church Missionary House, Salisbury Square, London, E.C.
Medical Mission Auxiliary (Church Missionary Society)Date: [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Journals
Mercy and truth : a record of C.M.S. medical mission work.
Date: 1897-- Journals
Mission hospital : a record of medical missions of the C.M.S.
- Journals
Conquest by healing.
Date: [1924-1961]