Stories
- Article
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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What the nose doesn’t know
Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.
- Book extract
The shape of thought
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.
Catalogue
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Lowdham, Caleb (fl. 1665-1712), surgeon, Exeter
Lowdham, Caleb, fl. 1665-1712.Date: Late 17th century - early 18th centuryReference: MS.7073- Archives and manuscripts
English recipe book, 19th century
Date: 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.9168- Archives and manuscripts
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Composite manuscript of medical works in Italian and Latin (Miscellanea Medica I)
Date: Early 14th century - Late 17th CenturyReference: MS.531- Books
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Delights for ladies : to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories, with beauties, banquets, perfumes, and waters.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1617- Books
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Delightes for ladies : to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories, with beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1615