Stories
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Are doctors medical detectives?
Do doctors really identify medical conditions in the same way that detectives solve crimes? Neurologist Jules Montague makes her diagnosis.
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Western magic’s fascination with the foreigner
Could modern magic shows be perpetuating damaging cultural stereotypes? Shelley Saggar shows how ‘exotic’ costumes and imagery are far from harmless fun.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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Perseus slaying Medusa. Photographic postcard after L.-H. Marqueste, 191-.
Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]Reference: 2045846iPart of: James Gardiner Collection: unlabelled photograph album.- Pictures
Perseus with the head of Medusa turning into stone Polydectes and his army. Engraving by C. Alberti after Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1525.
Polidoro, da Caravaggio, approximately 1495-approximately 1543.Date: [between 1600 and 1609?]Reference: 2475262i
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Astrology: signs of the zodiac, Perseus with Medusa's head. Coloured engraving.
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Perseus about to cut off the head of Medusa while looking at it in the reflection of his shield. Etching after A. van Diepenbeeck.
Diepenbeeck, Abraham van, 1596-1675.Date: [between 1655 and 1733?]Reference: 2917583i
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A sculpture of Perseus with the head of Medusa by Benvenuto Cellini. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Date: [between 1910 and 1919]Reference: 2045502iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.