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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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The blight of the ballooning blood vessels

In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.

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Found items

Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.

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Inside the mind of George Vasey, co-curator of Misbehaving Bodies

Discover how curator George Vasey honoured the approaches of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, who mischievously subvert clichés around illness and death.

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  • Portrait of Thomas Charles Hope.
  • Charles Henry Newby. Photograph by Thomas Humphries.
  • Thomas Creswick. Photograph by John & Charles Watkins.
  • Sir Thomas Charles Morgan. Lithograph by J. Clarke, 1841.
  • William Charles Thomas Dobson. Photograph by Maull & Polyblank.
  • Sir Charles Scott Sherrington. Process print by Walter Thomas.
  • The works of Sir Thomas Browne / edited by Charles Sayle.
  • Thomas Charles Hope. Mezzotint by T. Hodgetts after H. Raeburn.
  • Thomas Charles Hope. Mezzotint by T. Hodgetts after H. Raeburn.
  • Portrait of Charles Thomas Jackson. Photograph of the portrait in oils in the Harvard Medical Library, Boston, Massachusetts.
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