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Synaesthesia, or when senses overlap
What’s it like to see heartbeats, taste Tube stations or hear paintings?
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Migraine, creativity and me
Novelist Lydia Ruffles explores how migraine has made her mind stretch, shrink, widen and change, and how it’s influenced her art.
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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 house of Joan
The longueurs of hospital stays and enforced inactivity were the spur to Joan’s precise tailoring skills and flamboyant creations, all to the benefit of her fashion-loving sisters.
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John Pidler, laceman and haberdasher, Opposite the Long-Room, Hotwells, Bristol, sells all sorts of lace for Ladies and Gentlemen's Ruffles: likewise, Gauzes; and Silk, Thread, and Cotton Stockings: Gloves of all Kinds: Perfume Waters, and Syrup of Capilaire; with many other Articles. - For the Dispatch of Business, plain Marks upon every such Article, nothing to be abated, as he sells upon the lowest Terms. - He will remove to Bath next Season.
Pidler, John.Date: 1762
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Lamellipodia & membrane ruffles
Catherine Nobes & Alan Hall
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Membrane spikes and ruffles on fibroblasts
Alex Gray
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A French hair-dresser (his nationality indicated by his bag-wig and ruffles) applying tongs to the hair of his seated customer, a bespectacled politician, who appears alarmed at a paper he is reading. Engraving after S.H. Grimm.
Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus, 1733-1794.Date: 1771Reference: 31309i
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A pancreatic cancer cell.
Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute