Stories
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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Theriac: An ancient brand?
The name theriac survived for around for two millennia as a pharmaceutical term. But a ‘brand’ name is not always a guarantee of quality.
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Catalogue
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William Hoare of Bath R.A., 1707-1792 : Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, November 3 - December 8 1990 / catalogue by Evelyn Newby.
Date: 1990
- Archives and manuscripts
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Manuscript recipe book of Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville (1654-1744)
Date: 1662 - mid 18th centuryReference: MS.8903- Archives and manuscripts
English Medical Notebook
Date: mid 18th century - c.1811Reference: MS.8046- Books
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Bath waters, a conjectural idea of their nature and qualities, in three letters, to - - To which is added, putridity and infection unjustly imputed to fevers, a cruel public grievance, attempted to be redressed; with some account of the nature and management of plain fevers. By A. W. M.D. Reg. Colleg. Med. Edinb. Soc.
Wilson, Andrew, M.D., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.Date: L.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
The seconde parte of William Turner's Herball : wherein are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke / Latin / Duche / Frenche / and in the Apothecaries Latin / and somtyme in Italiene / wyth the vertues of the same herbes wyth diuerse confutationes of no small errours / that men of no small learning haue committed in the intreatinge of herbes of late yeares. Here vnto is ioyned also a booke of the bath of Baeth in Englande / and of the vertues of the same wyth diuerse other bathes moste holsum and effectuall / both in Almany and Englande ... / set furth by William Turner Doctor of Physik.
Turner, William, -1568.Date: In the yeare of our Lorde 1562