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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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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Prognosticacion drawen out of the bookes of Ipocras, Auicen, and other notable auctours of physycke, shewynge the daunger of dyuers syckenesses, that is to say, whether peryll of deth be in them or not, the pleasure of almyghtye God reserued.
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Prognosticacion : drawen out of the bookes of Ipocras, Avicen, and other notable auctours of physycke, shewynge the daunger of dyvers syckenesses, that is to saye, whether in peryl of death be in them or not, the pleasure of almyghty God reseruyd.
HippocratesDate: [1545?]- Books
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Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de Ventriculi Inflammatione: quam, annuente summo numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri D. Joannis Gowdie, Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti; nec non Amplissimi senatus academici consensu, Et nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto; pro gradu doctoratus, summisque in medicina honoribus et privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis, eruditorum examini subjicit Jacobus Buckham, Scoto-Britannus. Ad diem 16 Junii, hora locoque solitis.
Buckham, James, 1723-1783.Date: M,DCC,LVIII. [1758]- Books
Medicinalium observationum libri tres. : Quibus notae morborum omnium, et quae de his possint haberi praesagia, iudiciaqúe, proponuntur. / Autore Iodoco Lommio Burano.
Lommius, Jodocus, approximately 1500-approximately 1564.Date: M. D. LX. [1560]- Books
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Observations on the prognostic in acute diseases. By Charles Le Roy, M.D. F.R.S. Regius Professor of Physic, in the University of Montpellier, and Member of the Royal Society of Physicians, at Paris, &c. Translated from the French. With notes.
Le Roy, Charles, 1726-1779.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]