Stories
- Article
Losing touch
In these pandemic times, when touch has become taboo, Agnese Reginaldo explores the importance of physical contact to our wellbeing.
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Remote romance and the common cold
Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.
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Rethinking the placebo effect
The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.
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Disabled musicians and the fight to perform
Music might be the universal language, but unfortunately it doesn’t come with universal access. London-based artist Miss Jacqui discusses the barriers to her career with Jamie Hale.
Catalogue
- Journals
Journal of scientific instruments.
- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Appliances Trade Catalogues for Hawksley and Sons, Surgical Appliances and Instrument Makers, Oxford Street, London
Hawksley & Sons, Surgical Appliances and Instrument Makers (est.1869) of Oxford Street, London.Date: c.1882-c.1910Reference: MSS.8732-8737- Books
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On some improvements in the method of graphically recording the varations in the level of a surface of mercury, e.g. in the kymograph of Ludwig ; The circulation kymoscope, an arrangement for demonstrating many of the physical phenomena of the circulation ; The interference kymoscope, an apparatus for demonstrating many of the phenomena of wave motion / by T.P. Anderson Stuart.
Anderson Stuart, Thomas Peter, 1856-1920.Date: 1891- Archives and manuscripts
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M0008305: Lenticulars, 16 instruments
Date: October 1941Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/72/36Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0008302: Skull elevators, 18 instruments
Date: October 1941Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/72/33Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive