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Experience a medieval pharmacy, where pigments and medicines are displayed side by side – the insects, plants and rocks of the artist’s palette mixed into the physician’s...The Lister Spray machine, developed by Dr. Joseph Lister, disseminated a carbolic acid solution in the operating theater. This one was made by Arnold and Sons around 1880. (From the M. Donald Blaufox Collection, courtesy of the Dittrick Medical History Museum) See also my review of "The Butchering Art" a biography of Dr Lister that I published below.
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MR Lee Liquorice is a very ancient plant widely used in the East for millennia. It has often been employed in sweets and confectionery and also for minor ailments including cough, constip...