Stories
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
Catalogue
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Composite manuscript of medical works in Italian and Latin (Miscellanea Medica I)
Date: Early 14th century - Late 17th CenturyReference: MS.531- Archives and manuscripts
Boursier, Laurent François (1679-1749), Jansenist theologian
Boursier, Laurent François, 1679-1749.Date: late 17th century - early 18th centuryReference: MS.6069- Books
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The so much fam'd tablets.
Date: [1680]- Videos
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Ultrasound in tumour diagnosis.
Date: 1976- Books
Tablets. I. The evolution of the tablet machine. II. A bibliography on tablets ... / by P.A. Foote.
Foote, P. A. (Perry Albert)Date: [1928]