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A history of art in hospitals
Art historian Anne Wallentine examines art in hospital settings – from its Christian devotional origins to its healing role in modern healthcare buildings.
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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Virtual reality and the fix of the future
Virtual reality, with its complex sensory tricks, takes us beyond the real world. Find out how these potentially addictive experiences can harm us – or might even have therapeutic uses.
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Bringing Braille back to the modern world
For anyone who thinks Braille is so last century, read on. New tech is helping dust Braille down and bring it to today’s visually impaired people.
![A seated woman giving birth aided by a midwife and two other attendants, in the background two men are looking at the stars and plotting a horoscope. Woodcut, 1583[?].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0014910/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Perkin jubilee of the coal-tar industry / The Committee of Fifteen, Chas. F. Chandler, chairman [and others].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b15527785_EPH_25_14_0002.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Perkin jubilee of the coal-tar industry / The Committee of Fifteen, Chas. F. Chandler, chairman [and others].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b15527785_EPH_25_14_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Perkin jubilee of the coal-tar industry / The Committee of Fifteen, Chas. F. Chandler, chairman [and others].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b15527785_EPH_25_14_0003.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
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The tragical history of the babes in the wood, whose father, a rich gentleman in Norfolk, when dying, committed to the guardianship of his own brother. - But this cruel and unnatural Wretch, in order to possess himself of their Fortunes, caused the Children to be destroyed soon after their Father's Death. - He is punished for his Perfidy, in the most exemplary Manner, by Divine Justice, as set forth in the Sequel.
Date: [1780?]
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The medical and surgical history of the war of the rebellion (1861-65) / prepared, in accordance with the acts of Congress, under the direction of Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States Army.
Barnes, Joseph K., 1817-1883.Date: 1875-1879- Books
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The history and art of printing. In two parts. Part I. containing I. A Concise History of the Art from its Invention to the present Time; with the several Charters granted to the Company of Stationers. II. Specimens of Printing Types of all Sizes, and various Languages, Music Types, Flowers and Ornaments. Part II. treating of I. The necessary Materials made use of in a Printing Office-Of the different Pounts of Letter, their Properties, Size, and Application; with Tables to shew the Difference there is between the several Bodies of Letter, and how one gets in or drives out more than another. - Of Points, Quadrate, Spaces, Rules, Braces, Quotations, Flowers, &c. &c. II. Of Printing Presses, their Construction and Use particulars described, with a Drawing of a Press, and of its several Parts, cut in Wood. III. Of Wetting Paper, Knocking up Balls, Pulling, Printing different Colours, and other necessary Rules and Directions for the Pressman. IV. Or the Compositor's Business, viz. Dressing of Chaces, Composing, Spacing, Tying up Pages, Imposing, &c. with a great Variety of Examples and useful Tables. V. Of Correctors and Correcting, with Directions to Authors how to mark Corrections in their Proof Sheets. VI. Of Casting off Copy. Vii. Alphabets and Characters of various Languages and Sciences. Viii. Of the Business requisite to be done in the Warehouse, and the Duty of the Warehouseman. IX. An Explanation of Technical Terms used in Printing. The Whole forming a more intelligible and complete Introduction to the Art of Printing than has been hitherto attempted, and containing a great Variety of Instructions and Examples that are not to be found in any other Performance. By P. Luckombe, M. T. A.
Luckombe, Philip, -1803.Date: [1771]- Books
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The callico printers' assistant; from the first operation of designing patterns, to the delivery of work for sale: including, Among various other matters of more general Import. thoughts on genius and invention. Suggestions for an improved mode of printing. - --An Essay (applicable to Manufacturers in general) on the attention due from Masters and Men to each other. And a concise history of callico printing to the present time; Comprizing many Particulars both immediately respecting it, and that has affinity with it, in remote Points of view.
O'Brien, Charles, callico printer.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]-92- Archives and manuscripts
Art in Madness - Early Patient Artwork
Date: 1843-c.1867Reference: DGH1/7/3/1Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital