Stories
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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A treatise on the cure of ulcerated legs without rest, and ulcers of various parts, arising from scorbutic and other impurities in the blood, &c. By William Rowley, M. D. Member of the University of Oxford, Royal College of Physicians in London, &c.
Rowley, William, 1742-1806.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Extract of a letter, from Mr. Magennis, surgeon to prisoners of war at Norman-Cross, to the commissioners for sick and wounded seamen, dated 14th August, 1798, on the new mode of treating ulcer.
Magennis, James, active 1775-1799.Date: 1798]- Books
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Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de ulcere uteri: quam, ... pro gradu doctoratus, ... eruditorum examini subjicit Gulielmus Broughton, Hibernus. ...
Broughton, Gulielmus.Date: 1755- Books
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A cursory view of the treatment of ulcers, more especially those of the scrofulous, phagedænic, & cancerous description. With an appendix, on Baynton's new mode of treating old ulcers of the leg. By Richard Nayler, ...
Nayler, Richard.Date: 1800- Books
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The chirurgicall lectures of tumors and vlcers : Delivered on Tusedayes appointed for these exercises, and keeping of their courts in the Chirurgeans Hall these three yeeres last past, viz. 1632, 1633, and 1634. By Alexander Read Doctor of Physick, and one of the fellowes of the Physitians College of London.
Read, Alexander, 1586?-1641Date: 1635