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Collecting medicine: Thomas Glass and the Cathedral Library
By Emily Chircop, final year English and Communications student at the University of Exeter. How did Exeter Cathedral become home to so many medical texts?…
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Learning to fight smallpox: Edward Jenner’s Inquiry
By Emily Chircop, final year English and Communications student at the University of Exeter. For most of human history, smallpox was a truly devastating disease,…
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Understanding human anatomy: the works of Vesalius and Harvey
By Emily Chircop, final year English and Communications student at the University of Exeter. How did physicians in the past learn about human anatomy? For…
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Ibn Sina’s Canon: medicine from the medieval Islamic world
By Emily Chircop, English and Communications student at the University of Exeter. Until the 16th century, almost all Western medicine relied on key concepts from…