Stories
- Article
The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.
- 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
Illness and the influence of the stars
Could alien germs from space have caused major pandemics across the world? Taras Young investigates the ideas of a few unconventional scientists who believe this to be the case.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Arte Dei Medici E Speziali, Florence
Arte Dei Medici E Speziali, FlorenceDate: Late 16th centuryReference: MS.5986- Books
The conflict between the 16th century physicians and antiquity / by Dr Henry E. Sigerist.
Sigerist, Henry E. (Henry Ernest), 1891-1957.Date: 1923- Archives and manuscripts
Richard Master (d.1588), physician to Queen Elizabeth I
Date: 16th centuryReference: MS.7382/2Part of: Miscellany: English, 16th-17th centuries- Archives and manuscripts
English Medical Notebook, 16th-Century
Date: Late 16th centuryReference: MS.6228- Archives and manuscripts
De regimine praeseruatiuo contra apoplexiam
Date: Middle 16th centuryReference: MS.235