Stories
- Book extract
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.
- Article
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.
- Book extract
You know the drill
Richard Barnett opens wide the true meaning of a healthy mouth.
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- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Receipt-Book, 17th-18th century
Date: c.1690-1710Reference: MS.4054- Books
The Cambridge illustrated history of surgery / Harold Ellis.
Ellis, Harold, 1926-Date: 2009