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The medicine cabinet : the story of health and disease told through extraordinary objects / edited by Natasha McEnroe and Selina Hurley.

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London : André Deutsch, 2019.

Medicine -- History -- Popular works.

Medical instruments and apparatus -- Catalogs.

9780233006109 (hardcover)

0233006109 (hardcover)

256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Understanding our bodies -- Birth and death -- Diagnosis -- Surgery -- Public health -- Assistive technology -- Belief -- Drugs and pharmacy -- War -- Hospitals.

The Medicine Cabinet is a beautifully curated and expertly written compendium of over 100 astonishing objects related to the story of medicine. Each object is cared for by London's Science Museum, which houses one of the largest and most significant collections of medical artefacts in the world -- including a Bronze Age trepanned skull, healing water from an Ancient Greek well, a seventeenth-century barber's pole, a pharmacist's ceramic leech jar, a gold memento mori ring, First World War blood transfusion apparatus and a prototype MRI scanner."-- Publisher.

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