Search Results for "medicine"
Charleton eclectic
history of scienceAn early Fellow of the Royal Society wrote about stone circles, the human soul, natural history and scurvy, as well as penning a gushing tribute to King Charles II. Rupert Baker provides an introduction.
The circle of Willis
history of scienceThe videos from our online history of science conference, 'Celebrating the quatercentenary of the birth of Thomas Willis', are now available on demand. Rupert Baker gives an overview of the contents.
West African medical knowledge, the slave trade and the Royal Society
history of scienceDr Carolyn Roberts of Yale University, currently writing her first book 'To heal and to harm: medicine, knowledge, and power in the British slave trade', discusses some key documents in the Royal Society's archives.
No tar, Bishop
history of scienceHow did a leading physician and Fellow of the Royal Society respond to a book, written in 1744 by the Bishop of Cloyne, on the restorative powers of tar-water? None too politely, as Rupert Baker discovers...
Dissecting a King
history of scienceThe role of Royal Physician to the King or Queen was often given to a Fellow of the Royal Society.
'Permit me to lay before you the bladder of Mr Gardiner'
history of scienceThe early Royal Society appears to have been curiously fascinated with bladder-stones; there are numerous reports of unusually large calculi, as they were also known, being shown in meetings.