Stories
- Article
The chymist’s trade card
An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
- Article
Interpreting the Ayurvedic Man
A British Sign Language video is the latest interpretation of an unique 18th-century Nepali painting about Ayurvedic medicine.
- Article
Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
English Miscellany, 18th Century
Date: 1703-1786Reference: MS.8405- Archives and manuscripts
William Heberden the elder (1710-1801) and William Heberden the younger (1767-1845), physicians
Heberden, William, 1710-1801Date: late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.8832- Archives and manuscripts
Besançon: École de Médecine
Besançon: École de MédecineDate: late 17th century - late 18th centuryReference: MS.1154- Archives and manuscripts
English medical and pharmaceutical notebook
Date: early 18th centuryReference: MS.9215- Archives and manuscripts
Örtel, Eucharius Ferdinand Christian (1765-1850), physician
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7372/26Part of: Miscellany: German, 18th-20th centuries