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A mesmerist using animal magnetism on a seated female patient. Wood engraving, ca. 1845. Date: [approximately 1845] Reference: 11823i ...
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.
The death of the Quaker Hannah Mills in the York Lunatic Asylum in 1790 led to the founding of The Retreat Photographs arranged in 2 parts.
Credit: Outlines of inquiry relating to hygienic, medical, and surgical experience in the war. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library ...
Credit: Good fare in war-time / issued by the Board of Education. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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.
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’.
In 1950, an American journalist popularised the term ‘brainwashing’, arguing that a new amalgam of technology, medicine and ideology was allowing an onslaught on people’s minds. In this abridged ...
Laura Grace Simpkins attempts to untangle some uncomfortable truths about the social and environmental costs of making her medication.