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A medieval guide to practical magic
With few sources of effective help available when treating an injured patient, the medieval physician could instead stage a healing ceremony using a practical how-to guide he carried with him.
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The man who remembers everything
Tilney1 can remember his life in minute detail, but can’t control the incessant intrusion of thoughts and images from the past. As cuts to mental health services isolate him more and more, a crisis approaches.
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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Trans masculinity on the record
Curator of the Museum of Transology in Brighton E-J Scott tells the story behind a few of the 250 objects from the collection, and the powerful effect they had on him as he put trans lives on the record.
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S. A. J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts
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Catalogue of Western manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / by S.A.J. Moorat.
Wellcome Historical Medical Library.Date: 1962-1973- Archives and manuscripts
Rennefort, J. S. de
Date: mid-18th centuryReference: MS.3558/9Part of: Miscellanea Alchemica VIII- Archives and manuscripts
Marggraff, A. S.
Date: 1756Reference: MS.1142/7Part of: Berlin: Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften- Archives and manuscripts
Marggraff, A. S.
Date: 1748Reference: MS.1140/3Part of: Berlin: Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften