Stories
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A brief history of tattoos
The earliest evidence of tattoo art dates from 5000 BC, and the practice continues to hold meaning for many cultures around the world.
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
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Colonialism and the origins of skin bleaching
The widespread practice of skin bleaching was heavily influenced by the Western colonisation and slavery of African and South Asian countries. Ngunan Adamu explores this toxic history.
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A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
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An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species : to which are added strictures on Lord Kaims's [sic] discourse, on the original diversity of mankind / by the Reverend Samuel Stanhope Smith, D.D. Vice-president, and professor of moral philosophy in the College of New-Jersey ; and member of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge.
Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 1750-1819.Date: MDCCLXXXVII [1787]- Pictures
Addison's disease in a seventeen and a half year old male: detail of lips showing brownish pigmentation. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1950.
Nicholson, BarbaraDate: 1950Reference: 33775iPart of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.- Pictures
Malignant melanoma in a 49-year old man with terminally widespread metastases: sections of (a) right adrenal, completely replaced by growth with non-pigmented deposit in kidney, (b) testis and tunica nodules and (c) liver with multiple deposits varying in degree of pigmentation. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1950.
Nicholson, BarbaraDate: 1950Reference: 33783iPart of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.- Pictures
Granulated ulcer and surrounded pigmented area in right foot of a 30-year old man with compound femur fracture. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1949.
Nicholson, BarbaraDate: 1949Reference: 33101iPart of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.- Pictures
Dermatitis of the hands in a 45-year old man with pellagra: detail sketch showing desquamation and pigment changes. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1951.
Nicholson, BarbaraDate: 1951Reference: 34169iPart of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.