Stories
- Article
The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
- Article
What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
- Article
Duelling doctors
An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.
- Article
The poetic language of health
When his doctors could only offer phone consultations, James Morland turned to poetry to make sense of the medical terms describing his symptoms and test results.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"On Catharine Payton" by Thomas Hodgkin of Ackworth.
Date: 18th Century - 19th CenturyReference: PP/HO/A/C1Part of: Hodgkin family- Archives and manuscripts
Poetry
Date: 18th Century - 19th CenturyReference: PP/HO/A/CPart of: Hodgkin family- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Medical Recipe Book, Coventry, late 18th-early 19th century
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7366- Books
- Online
The castle of infamy. A poetical vision. In two parts.
Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
- Online
Harlequin's metamorphoses.
Date: [1780]