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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Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science
The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.
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Diagnosing the past
Historical texts rarely supply enough detail for a definitive diagnosis, so medical historians need to proceed with caution.
Catalogue
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Healing the herds : disease, livestock economies, and the globalization of veterinary medicine / edited by Karen Brown and Daniel Gilfoyle.
Date: [2010], ©2010- Books
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An historical account of gaol fever / by Francis C. Webb.
Webb, Francis Cornelius.Date: [1857]- Books
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Alexander Popham, M.P. for Taunton, and the Bill for the Prevention of the Gaol Distemper, 1774 : a hygienic retrospect : presidential address delivered before the Annual Meeting of the West Somerset Branch of the British Medical Association at Taunton, on Thursday, June 28th, 1894 / by Arthur Durant Willcocks.
Willcocks, Arthur Durant.Date: 1894- Books
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The lancet. [Nos 316-317].
Date: 1828- Books
Contagion, isolation, and biopolitics in Victorian London / Matthew L. Newsom Kerr.
Newsom Kerr, Matthew L., 1974-Date: [2018]