Bills of mortality for the year 1665 in London, recording the number of plague dead, as well as other causes of mortality.
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Bills of mortality for the year 1665 in London, recording the number of plague dead, as well as other causes of mortality.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/londons-dreadful-visitation-bills-of-mortality
A thoroughly romantic amateur English botanist’s catalogue of more than 400 plants and flowers that once grew in profusion on the Roman Colosseum.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/richard-deakin-flora-of-the-colosseum-of-rome
Depictions of plague doctors in the bird mask and floor-length cloak first developed in France during the early 17th century.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/plague-doctor-costumes
The California Gold Rush transformed the landscape and population of the United States. It also introduced a new figure into American life and the American imagination — the effete Eastern urbanite who travels to the Wild West in quest of his fortune. Alex Andriesse examines how this figure fares in three mid-nineteenth-century comic books.
Three volumes of anecdotes about painters and other artists collected by an enterprising American dentist, author, and connoisseur of the arts.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/anecdotes-of-painters-engravers-sculptors-and-architects
Two PSA films featuring the multi-talented director, actor, doctor, and hypochondriac Richard Massingham.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/coughs-sneezes-and-jet-propelled-germs-1945
Meticulous illustrations from an atlas of animal bones, including those of the tiny squirrel and the tall giraffe, the domesticated camel and the extinct giant ground sloth.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/comparative-osteology
In this lyrical essay on a difficult and painful topic, the poet Kathryn Nuernberger works to defy history’s commitment to distance, to unsettling effect.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/titiba-and-the-invention-of-the-unknown
In the 17th century, English travelers, merchants, and physicians were first introduced to cannabis, particularly in the form of bhang, an intoxicating edible which had been getting Indians high for millennia. Benjamin Breen charts the course of the drug from the streets of Machilipatnam to the scientific circles of London.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/how-the-english-found-cannabis
In the 17th century, English travelers, merchants, and physicians were first introduced to cannabis, particularly in the form of bhang, an intoxicating edible which had been getting Indians high for millennia. Benjamin Breen charts the course of the drug from the streets of Machilipatnam to the scientific circles of London.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-very-speedy-way-to-be-besotted-how-the-english-found-cannabis