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Pandemic Legacies: Health, Healing, and Medicine in the Age of Slavery and Beyond
The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery, based in New York, is organising an online conference on health, healing and medicine in the age of slavery and beyond from October 6-8, 2021. Just as the slave trade tied together the cultures and populations of four continents, it also wed together distinctive disease…
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Experiencing ear trumpets in the Enlightenment
Experiencing ear trumpets in the Enlightenment
In the Exploring Research series of the Wellcome Collection, HHH member Ruben Verwaal discusses the oldest acoustic hearing aids in the collection: ear trumpets. He will explain how ear trumpets were developed at the turn of the 18th century and why this large acoustic device became increasingly commonplace among the hard of hearing. The presentation…