Stories
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Would you like to buy a unicorn?
The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.
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Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
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The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
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Scots songs. By Allan Ramsay.
Ramsay, Allan, 1685-1758.Date: 1719- Books
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Scots songs. By A. Ramsay.
Ramsay, Allan, 1685-1758.Date: 1718- Books
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Scots news from London, or the treatise between the two Kigdoms [sic] concerning the Union. London January 23d. 1707
Date: 1707]- Books
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Scots Presbyterian eloquence displayed; or their manner of teaching and preaching exposed; from a variety of authentic extracts, collected from their books, sermons, prayers, letters, &c. Interspersed with some genuine and curious adventures on different occasions.
Crokatt, Gilbert.Date: Printed in the Year M,DCC,LXVI. [1766]