Stories
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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.
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Theriac: An ancient brand?
The name theriac survived for around for two millennia as a pharmaceutical term. But a ‘brand’ name is not always a guarantee of quality.
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Why the world needs collectors
Those who collect play an important role as “facilitators of curiosity”, says Anna Faherty.
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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Lowdham, Caleb (fl. 1665-1712), surgeon, Exeter
Lowdham, Caleb, fl. 1665-1712.Date: Late 17th century - early 18th centuryReference: MS.7073- Books
Codices Vossiani chymici / décrits par P.C. Boeren.
Boeren, P. C., 1909-1994.Date: 1975- Archives and manuscripts
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English Recipe Book, late 17th - early 19th century
Date: Late 17th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.7851- Pictures
A patient jumping up and screaming with pain while a surgeon is treating his leg; an onlooking woman seems to be pleading with the surgeon. Etching by J.G. van Vliet, c. 1630.
Reference: 22556i