Stories
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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.
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When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
John Gidley and William Oades, surgeons
Date: 16th century - 17th centuryReference: MS.7382/1Part of: Miscellany: English, 16th-17th centuries- 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
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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- Pictures
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The menhir of Saint-Uzec, in Pleumeur-Bodou, Brittany. Colour lithograph after A. de Mortillet.
Mortillet, Adrien de, 1853-1931.Date: 1897Reference: 31411i- Archives and manuscripts
Secreta Secretorum, France, 17th century
Date: 17th centuryReference: MS.7298