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Conserving the Richard Bright Collection
Dr Richard Bright is a key figure in the history of medicine and intellectual life, famous for his work in nephrology and discovery of Bright’s disease, but also active in other areas, including natural history, geology, anthropology and travel. Bright … Continue reading
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‘Take a field mouse, skin it, fry in butter and give to the child’: Folk Medicine in 1920s East Anglia
Dr Mark R Taylor was the first full-time regional medical officer for Norwich from the years 1920-1927. He was a doctor at the forefront of the increasing spread of professionalised medicine. However, he was also a doctor with a keen … Continue reading
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