Stories
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Printing the body
The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.
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The chymist’s trade card
An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.
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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens
The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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Letters between E White and J B S Haldane
Date: Dec 1944 - Feb 1945Reference: HALDANE/4/20/1/21Part of: Haldane Papers- Books
On the presence of peculiar parasitic organisms in the tissue of a specimen of Delhi boil / by D.D. Cunningham.
Cunningham, D. D. (David Douglas), 1843-1914.Date: 1885- Books
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The genuine and uncommon will of a clergyman lately deceas'd; whose son now deservedly possesses one of the highest stations in the church: containing his remarkable apology for adultery.
J. B. (John Butler)Date: [1750]- Books
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An impartial and authentic narrative of the battle fought on the 17th of June, 1775, between His Britannic Majesty's troops and the American provincial army, on Bunker's Hill, near Charles Town, in New-England. With a True and Faithful Account of the Officers who were killed and wounded in that memorable Battle. To which are added, Some particular Remarks and Anecdotes which have not yet transpired. The whole being collected and written on the Spot. By John Clarke, First Lieutenant of Marines.
Clarke, John, active 1767-1775.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
Early English printing : a series of facsimiles of all the types used in England during the XVth century, with some of those used in the printing of English books abroad / with an introduction by E. Gordon Duff.
Duff, E. Gordon (Edward Gordon), 1863-1924.Date: 1896