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Telephus (son of Hercules) cured of a potentially fatal wound with some rust from Achilles' spear, with which he had originally been wounded. Engraving after P. Brebiette, 16--.

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Ezekiel has a vision of angels and spheres with eyes coasting along the thunderstruck sea. Etching by R. Pranker, 176-, after B. Picart.

<p>Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) was an expert in neurology and psychiatry. He had a clinic at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. At that time the Salpêtrière combined a lunatic asylum with a home ...

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Work and control in a peasant economy : a history of the lower Tchiri Valley in Malawi, 1859-1960 / Elias C. Mandala.

Credit Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière : service de M. Charcot / par Bourneville et P. Regnard. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Explore the profound impact of physical work on health and the enduring fight for workers’ rights through our new major exhibition.

London : published on behalf of the governments of the Straits settlements and Federated Malay states by the Crown agents for the colonies, 1935.

Inspired by 17th-century murals from a private meditation chamber for Tibet’s Dalai Lamas in the Lukhang Temple in Llasa, this exhibition featured more than 120 objects – scroll paintings, statues, ...

A 19th-century campaigner who condemned the practice of keeping a dead person at home before the funeral started a gradual trend for outsourcing the preparation and storage of a body. But as a ...