Stories
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Disputatio medica inauguralis de medicamentorum sudoriferorum naturâ, operatione, et usu : Quam, praeside Deo opt. max. ex authoritate magnifici rectoris, D. Theodori Ryckii ... Nec non amplissimi senatûs academici consensu, & almae facultatis medicae decreto, pro gradu doctoratus, summisque in medicina honoribus & privilegiis ritè ac legitimè consequendis, publico examini subjicit Josua Palmer, Anglus. Ad diem 2 Iulii, loco horisque solitis.
Palmer, Josua, active 1682.Date: M DC LXXXII. [1682]- Books
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Experiments on the insensible perspiration of the human body, shewing its affinity to respiration. Published originally in 1779, and now republished with additions and corrections. By William Cruikshank.
Cruickshank, William, 1745-1800.Date: 1795- Books
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Dissertatio medica, inauguralis, de halitu cuticulari. Quam, Annuente Summo Numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, D. Gulielmi Robertson, S. S. T. P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti; Nec Non Amplissimi Senatus Academici consensu, Et nobilissimae Facultatis Medicae decreto, pro gradu doctoris, Summisque In Medicina Honoribus AC Privilegiis Rite ET Legitime Consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Joannes Yule, Britannus. S. Phys. Chirur. Edinen. D. Sodalis. Ad diem 12. Septembris, hora locoque solitis.
Yule, Joannes.Date: M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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Tentamen physiologico-medicum, inaugurale, de perspirationis usu. Quod, annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, D. Gulielmi Robertson, S.S. T.P. Academiæ Edinburgenæ Præfecti; nec non amplissimi senatus academici consensu, et nobilissimae facultatis medicæ decreto; Pro Gradu Doctoratus, summisque in medicina honoribus et privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Gulielmus Graham, Britannus, Soc. Med. Reg. Sod. et Soc. Physic. Soc. Hon. et Praes. An. Ad diem 25. Junii, hora locoque solitis.
Graham, William, M.D.Date: M,DCC,LXXXI. [1781]- Books
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Dissertatio medica inauguralis de perspiratione insensibili. Quam, annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate reverendi admodum viri, Gulielmi Robertson, S.S.T.P. academiæ Edinburgenæ præfecti, nec non amplissimi senatus academici consensu, et nobilissimae facultatis medicæ decreto; pro gradu doctoris, summisque in medicina honoribus et privilegiis, rite et legitime consequendis, eruditorum examini subjicit Jacobus Hamilton, Britannus. Ad diem 12 Junii, hora locoque solitis.
Hamilton, James, 1749-1835.Date: M,DCC,LXXI. [1771]