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Boils, Plague Sores and Embossed Carbunkles - online exhibition

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How gross can you go? Health, wellbeing and medicine were a little different in Shakespeare's time, though you may be surprised to find some interesting similarities. Join our guest curator, Horrible Histories illustrator Martin Brown, on a tour of medical mayhem.

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