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The tale of the toxic kidneys

In 1954 a serendipitous coming together of skills and circumstances allowed the first successful organ transplant to take place. Read how Richard Herrick’s life was prolonged by his identical twin’s generosity.

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Active pensioners, blooming gardens

To reach your 70s with over 300,000 Twitter followers or running a music festival is not the stereotypical image of retirement. But does this energetic engagement with life equal happiness?

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Hamlet, the melancholic Prince of Denmark

Hamlet clearly demonstrates an excess of black bile and is arguably the most famous literary melancholic.

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Parasites and pests from the medieval to the modern

Humans have been reluctant hosts to a plethora of unpleasant parasites for centuries. And medieval evidence shows our modern distaste for these little irritations is just as ancient.

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  • Richard Temple. Mezzotint by J. Young, 1802, after W. Owen.
  • A young man who walks straight into a butcher delivery boy's meat tray (poking his eye out), while the boy looks the opposite way. Etching by Richard Dighton.
  • Hannah Snell, a woman who passed as a soldier. Mezzotint by J. Young, 1789, after R. Phelps.
  • Surgeons and physicians of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, with views of the building and adjacent churches. Colour lithograph by Beynon & Company after F. Hager.
  • Twenty-five moral tales. Line engraving after [R.] Dighton after B. Franklin.
  • Distinguished British men of science 1807-1808 assembled in the library of the Royal Institution, London. Mezzotint by W. Walker and G. Zobel after F. Skill and W. Walker, ca. 1860, after Sir J. Gilbert.
  • Distinguished British men of science 1807-1808 assembled in the library of the Royal Institution, London. Mezzotint by W. Walker and G. Zobel after F. Skill and W. Walker, ca. 1860, after Sir J. Gilbert.
  • The distinguished men of science 1807-8: a key to the identities of the sitters. Photograph of engraving by W. Walker, 1862, after Sir J. Gilbert.
  • Servicemen in Malta performing a play, some in drag. Photographic postcard by R. Ellis, ca. 1918.
  • Servicemen in Malta performing a play, some in drag. Photographic postcard by R. Ellis, ca. 1918.
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