Stories
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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
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Louis Wain’s cryptic cats
Once famous for his quirky cat illustrations, today Louis Wain is often portrayed as a ‘psychotic’ artist whose illness can be mapped out through his drawings. Here Bryony Benge-Abbott takes a more rounded view.
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Unsigned paper arguing for lower duties on medicinal plants imported from the East to Great Britain
Date: Late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.7226/1Part of: Medicinal Plants: miscellany- Books
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Outlines of the geographical distribution of British plants : belonging to the division of vasculares or cotyledones / by Hewett Cottrell Watson.
Date: [1832?]- Books
British poisonous plants / A. A. Forsyth.
Forsyth, A. A.Date: 1954- Books
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Medical botany : or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias; comprising a popular and scientific account of all those poisonous vegetables that are indigenous to Great Britain / by John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill.
Date: 1831- Books
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Specification of William Clark : desiccating and preserving matters from decay.
Clark, William.Date: 1863