Stories
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The castration effect
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
- Article
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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Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.
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You know the drill
Richard Barnett opens wide the true meaning of a healthy mouth.
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Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
University of Perugia, 17th century
Date: 17th centuryReference: MS.7153- Archives and manuscripts
Marra
MarraDate: Late 17th centuryReference: MS.3457- Archives and manuscripts
Moreau, René (1587-1656), Paris professor of surgery and hygiene
Date: 1656Reference: MS.7339/7Part of: Miscellany: French, 16th & 17th centuries- Books
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A new catalogue of a valuable and choice collection of books: Being the libraries of An eminent judge, The Reverend Mr. Kent, and of Gilbert Dawson Esq; all deceas'd. Consisting of a large Collection of Books, Manuscripts, and State-Tracts, relating to the History, Antiquities, and Constitution of Great-Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Muscovy, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Asia, Africa, and America: Together with a compleat Set of Elzevir Classicks bound in 50 vol. in Morocco; the Royal Classicks in Usum Delphini, of the Paris Edition in Quarto; the best Edition of the Classicks cum Notis Variorum; the Louvre Classicks; the Pocket Classicks by Vascosan, Colinaeus, Seb. Gryphius, Stephens, Aldus, and Sedan Editions; The Byzantine Historians, 31 vol. Prynn's Records, 3 vol. Rymer's F dera, 20 vol. Les Oeuvres de Plutarque par Amyot, 13 vol. in Morocco; Montfaucon's Antiquities, 15 vol. large Paper; all the old Chronicles; Sir Wm. Dugdale's Works; and the History of the several Counties in England. Books of Sculpture, Architecture, Medals, Painting, Mathematicks, the Benedictine Editions of the Fathers, Books of Physick, Anatomy, Surgery; a large Collection of Voyages and Natural History; the best Dictionaries and Lexicons, great numbers on large Paper, and several Hundred Volumes curiously bound in Morocco. Also a compleat Set of Common, Civil, and Canon Law. Which will begin to be Sold very Cheap (the lowest Price fixed in each Book) at T. Osborne's Shop in Gray's-Inn, on Monday the 17th Day of May, 1736, and will continue Selling all the Month of May and June. Catalogues to be had at the Place of Sale, and Money for any Library or Parcel of Books.
Osborne, Thomas, -1743.Date: 1736]- Books
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Bibliotheca splendidissima: or, a catalogue of the valuable libraries of John Owen, Esq; Late Recorder of Windsor; Mr. John Ecton, Late Receiver of the Tenths of the Clergy: and that ingenious architect Capt. Edward Stanton. To which are added, A very fine collection, lately imported from Abroad, chiefly collected by the celebrated Mr. Colbert, first Minister of State to the late King of France: As likewise, by the learned Abbot Bignon, Librarian to the present King of France. The whole consisting of a Large and Numerous collection of books, relating to the History, Antiquities, and Constitution of Great-Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Muscovy, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Asia, Africa and America. The Best Editions of the classicks, by Vascosan, Colinaeus, Seb. Gryphius, Stephens, Aldus, Sedan, the Louvre, the Royal Classicks, in usum Delphini, cum Notis variorum, & Elzevir. Curiously bound in Morocco, and several with the Colbert and Bignon Arms on the Sides. Some curious Manuscripts upon Vellum. A compleat Set of the Histories of the several Counties in England. All the old Chronicles. A fine Collection of large and curious Bibles, printed by Field and others, with curious Cuts by Silvester, &c. Sir William Dugdale's Works. All the best and scarcest Dictionaries and Lexicons. A fine Collection of Books of Sculpture, Architecture, Medals, Painting, Mathematicks, the Benedictine Editions of the Fathers, a compleat Set of the Common Law, Civil and Canon; a large Number of Voyages and Natural History; most of the antient and modern Books of Physick, Anatomy, Surgery, &c. Great Numbers on Large Paper, and several Hundred Volumes bound in Morocco. Which will begin to be sold very cheap (the lowest Price fixed in each Book) at T. Osborne's shop in Gray's-Inn, on Monday the 17th day of November 1735. Catalogues may be had at the Place of Sale, and Money for any Library or Parcel of Books.
Osborne, Thomas, -1743.Date: 1735]