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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Interpreting the Ayurvedic Man
A British Sign Language video is the latest interpretation of an unique 18th-century Nepali painting about Ayurvedic medicine.
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Duelling doctors
An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.
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The girl with no name
When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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English Recipe Book, 18th century
Date: Mid 18th century - late 18th centuryReference: MS.7747- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
English Recipe Book, 17th century - 18th century
Date: 17th century - 18th centuryReference: MS.8097- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
English Recipe Book, 17th century - early 18th century
Date: 17th century - early 18th centuryReference: MS.7818- Archives and manuscripts
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English Recipe Book, later 17th - early 18th century
Date: Late 17th century - 18th centuryReference: MS.7822- Archives and manuscripts
English medical notebook, early 18th century
Samuel Glass (1715-1773), surgeon apothecaryDate: early 18th centuryReference: MS.8768Part of: Samuel Glass (1715-1773), surgeon apothecary