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Credit: Report of the Chinese Hospital, at Shanghae, from January 1st, to December 31st, 1849 / by the Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal ...

Original MS. list, written by several hands. With MS. transcript. The original document is endorsed: 'Names of the witches. 1658'.

Elements of agricultural chemistry, in a course of lectures for the Board of Agriculture / By Sir Humphry Davy.

Commissioned officers in the medical services of the British Army, 1660-1960 / [A. Peterkin, William Johnston, R. Drew].

The tenth annual report of the Chinese Hospital, at Shanghae, from January 1st, to December 31st, 1856 / by the Committee.

Posters by artists who turned their art into activism to support their communities and raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s.

Today smoking is seen publicly as a deadly vice, privately perhaps as more of a guilty pleasure. Follow tobacco’s journey over the centuries from medical remedy to killer carcinogen.

A 17th-century physician’s controversial theory about the link between the emotions and the stomach reminds us that we shouldn’t ignore our ‘gut feelings’.

How do you avoid catching the plague? Smoke constantly. Carry a sponge soaked in vinegar. Hang oranges studded with cloves around your house. This was the best medical advice available circa 1665, as ...

Nymphomania has traditionally been defined as an increased and therefore disturbing sexual drive. It was thought of as a serious medical condition particularly affecting women, who were often given ...

Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.