Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
Believe yourself better
There’s more to recovery than medication. In future, our unconscious minds could be recruited to put a positive spin on our health problems, helping us feel better faster.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'Relief of chronic pain by transcutaneous stimulation - analysis of 100 consecutive patients'. Paper given by Bates at the First World Congress on Pain, Florence, Sep 1975.
Date: 28 May 1976Reference: GC/179/A.144Part of: Bates, John A.V., and the Ratio Club- Books
Tetanus: analysis of one thousand cases : presidential address / David Bruce.
Bruce, David, Sir, 1855-1931.Date: [1917]- Archives and manuscripts
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Salzburg paper (various versions and notes) - of The Psycho-Analysis of Children chapter II
Date: c.1932Reference: PP/KLE/C.6Part of: Klein, Melanie- Books
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The analysis of potable water : with special reference to the determination of previous sewage contamination / by Charles Watson Folkard ; with an abstract of the discussion upon the paper, edited by James Forrest.
Folkard, Charles Watson.Date: 1882- Archives and manuscripts
Richards, Barry W
Date: Mar 1964 - Nov 1964Reference: PENROSE/2/42/8/1/19Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers