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Mandrake medicine and myths

There’s a lot of plant lore about the mandrake, going back to ancient times. Find out more about how this unremarkable-looking plant got its magical reputation.

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My search for a stronger voice

Find out what kinds of treatment history offered to people suffering from voice problems.

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Dealing with the dead after a nuclear attack

Cold War-era predictions of death on a vast scale became routine. But the British authorities were less prepared to dispose of the bodies.

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  • A stone-quarry: quarry workers levering slabs of stone, and a horse-drawn cart loaded with stones. Lithograph by F.J. Manskirch, ca. 1805.
  • Plan and section of a slate quarry. Etching by Bénard.
  • Plan and sections of a slate quarry. Etching by Bénard.
  • Stone: a working slate quarry, and the instruments used. Coloured aquatint.
  • A slate quarry and some of the instruments used. Etching by Bénard.
  • Charts, family showing early decay of teeth. Pedigree of Haemophilia (after Davidson and Mc. Quarrie).
  • Men in a stone quarry are sawing the stone and cutting it into shape. Coloured lithograph.
  • A slate quarry: processing of slate and the instruments used. Etching by Bénard after De la Croix.
  • A slate-quarry: quarrymen are working and the instruments used. Etching by Bénard after de la Croix.
  • A working slate quarry: a horse-mill for bringing up water for washing slate, and the instruments used. Etching by Bénard.
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