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Medicine, art and theft - with the stories behind some key texts in the history of #botany - https://t.co/XcnIkfAp6e
Medical records taken of Australian prisoners in a #WW2 #POW camp. Find out more on our blog https://t.co/UoI6SAZBRs
Johann Brunner (1709), in his research he removed the pancreas of a dog and discovered that it lived for 3 months
Maria Sibylla Merian (1705), a major contributor to #entomology with her studies on the metamorphosis of butterflies
Charles Bell's 'Idea of A New Anatomy of the Brain', which has been described as 'the Magna Carta of Neurology'
From our collections: William Wadd (surgeon to George IV)'s 'Comments on Corpulency' (1829) #histmed
Elizabeth Blackwell, A Curious Herbal (1737-9). Worked on while her husband Alexander was in debtor's prison #botany
Watercolour sketches made by Dr Grove-Wright in a #WW2 prisoner of war camp in Singapore
Hieronymus Bock, German botanist, developed a more scientific method for classifying plants in his 1552 work #botany